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The Handbook School starts next week, and Leigh and I are thrilled. I’m sure you are, too. My kids say they never even had a break, conveniently forgetting the grandparent cruise, weeks at Camp Glisson, spend the night parties, and the dozens of days they slept until lunchtime. Anticipating the arrival of her students, Mrs. […]
Food for Thought When Jesus talks about food in the Gospels, he usually makes points about grace, love, and hope in the kingdom of God to come. When I read those food stories, think about the biggest buffets I can imagine. Plenty of food, drink, and perhaps entertainment to take care of all the people […]
Wow! The dog days of summer have arrived. The last week of June is upon us, summer activities are in full swing, and it is 100° in Madison. Yet, I walked into a home store in Athens yesterday and saw decorations out for Halloween. Halloween? That is still more than four months away. HOW can […]
Thank you, Madison First UMC, for choosing me as your Lay Delegate to the North Georgia Annual Conference. I learned a lot! The theme of the conference was “Becoming An ACTS Church” based on Acts 2:42-44, which says: “The believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to community, to their shared meals, and their prayers. […]
Annual Conference 2024 Rev. Leigh and I were back in Athens for the 160th session of the North Georgia Annual Conference. As many of you know, this is our yearly meeting for the North Georgia United Methodist Church. About 2000 delegates, half clergy and half laity, gathered to take care of the business of our […]
Musical Worship? The story of Joseph in Genesis 37-50 is one of the most beloved tales of the Old Testament. It has everything that people like in a good story—jealousy, revenge, sex, power, plot twists, forgiveness, and a rags to riches ending. You’ll remember that Jacob, one of the patriarchs of ancient Israel, had 12 […]
Have you ever done a lot of work on something, but no one will ever notice? Last weekend I worked hard to finish up some projects around the house. I rerouted downspout water runoff on both sides of the house. I installed three squirrel proof birdfeeders on 10 foot poles outside our family room windows. […]
Hello Church family, Mayday! Mayday! We survived this month! Have you heard? May is the new December. The festivities kick off with teacher appreciation week and Mother’s Day, then the action ramps up with the banquets, band concerts, plays, award ceremonies, ball games, recitals, class parties, water days, field days, goodbye days, graduations, graduation parties, […]
Collections For our Prime Timers Senior Adult Ministry lunch yesterday, I dragged out some of my model railroading collection. Yes, I’m a train collector of HO, O, and G scale models. Displaying my collection was difficult because I couldn’t unpack dozens of boxes and show off everything I have. I found it hard to pick […]
How Long O Lord? About this time every year, our Bishop publishes the official list of United Methodist pastors who are staying at current churches and those who are moving to new churches. This past Sunday, Dr. Dan Zant, our SPRC Chairperson, announced that I was reappointed to Madison First UMC this year. Rev. Leigh […]
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