Category: simple church
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Horizons – March
Open Space is a model of young adult ministry, shared across the Methodist connection, that seeks to utilize Wesley’s community framework to create spaces to invite young adults into a process of spiritual discovery, growth, and belonging.
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Ordinary Resolutions
Happy New Year! If you are like most Americans, you probably spent some time this past week thinking about New Years Resolutions–what I call “our culture’s least meaningful tradition.” The end of one year and the beginning of another is a great (if somewhat arbitrary) time to reflect on our lives, particularly the things that […]
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Advent: Preparing the Way of the Lord
The four weeks leading up to Christmas are a season in the church that we call Advent. The word comes from Latin “adventus”, meaning “coming toward,” and the season denotes a time of preparation for the coming of Christ. The season of Advent is not merely about the warm fuzzies that many of us get […]
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Come and Find the Quiet Center
I consider myself an extrovert, but I absolutely hate parties. The combination of the commotion and the multiple conversations and the music are a bit of a sensory overload for a person with ADHD. I find myself unable to filter the numerous inputs that come into my head, and I end up not being able […]
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why the blame game is so tempting but doesn’t help us heal
It seems like we are blaming each other a lot more these days. Well maybe not more per se, but definitely more publicly. There’s not a day, or heck an hour, that goes by that I don’t see someone on my Facebook feed blaming another person (or group of people) for all the problems we’ve […]