Mark 12:13-17 New International Version (NIV) 13 Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. 14 They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of […]... Read More

Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.” I recently learned a lesson on hospitality, one that doesn’t usually affect me very often especially since becoming a pastor. People, especially church people, are quick to include me at the table. This wasn’t always the case. School was particularly difficult at times but since […]... Read More

Lent is a season of forty days, not counting Sundays, which begins today on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday. “Lent” comes from the Anglo-Saxon word lencten, which means “spring”. The season is a preparation for celebrating Easter. Historically, Lent began as a period of fasting and preparation for baptism by converts and then […]... Read More

Sunday, I spoke about the need to name our own demons, both personally and as a church. We have a tendency to become so comfortable with the way things are that we don’t recognize that there is a problem with the church. We just show up and things keep going the same old way. I […]... Read More

Isaiah 11:6 King James Version (KJV) 6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. I watched children across our entire nation walk out of their schools for […]... Read More

James 2:14-17Common English Bible (CEB) 14 My brothers and sisters, what good is it if people say they have faith but do nothing to show it? Claiming to have faith can’t save anyone, can it? 15 Imagine a brother or sister who is naked and never has enough food to eat. 16 What if one […]... Read More

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. John Muir   We made it back from Petit Jean State Park and from our 2017 Annual Church Camp-Out. It was my first time attending and I had so much fun even […]... Read More

Psalm 40 I put all my hope in the LORD. He leaned down to me; he listened to my cry for help. 2 He lifted me out of the pit of death, out of the mud and filth, and set my feet on solid rock. He steadied my legs. 3 He put a new song […]... Read More

In Stitched from the Soul (1990), Gladys-Marie Fry asserted that quilts were used to communicate safe houses and other information about the Underground Railroad, which was a network through the United States and into Canada of “conductors”, meeting places, and safe houses for the passage of African Americans out of slavery. The theory that quilts […]... Read More

“Raise Our Ebenezer!” Celebrating 200 Years of Methodism in Arkansas October 14, 2017 Join the Arkansas Conference Commission on Archives and History and the Historic Washington State Park as they mark the 200th anniversary of the raising of the first Methodist church building in Arkansas, “Henry’s Chapel” near Hope, Arkansas. The day’s activities include a […]... Read More