Sacred Healing

“Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!” I spent a week at Wesley Woods High School Camp recently with a large group of teenagers and every […]

Holy Food

“If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.” Today, we gather around the table of grace to receive the bread of life and the […]

The Prayer of Planting

“Blow upon my garden that its fragrance may be wafted abroad.” Have you ever planted a garden and even though you know what you put into the ground, still you […]

Beyond Doing

"Be still and know that I am God." As we pray, we are seeking love, we are drawn into God because we are called by love, we come out of […]

Doing Justice as Prayer

MI, United States

For this final sermon in our summer preaching series The Renewing Work of God, we turn to the work of Doing Justice as Prayer. Throughout this series we have been encouraged to […]

AXIOS

“…lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called…” (Ephesians 4:1). In the book of Ephesians, the Greek word used by the author for worthy is […]

The Fragrance of Christ

On this Coffeehouse Sunday we hope to bring in the aroma of herbs from our gardens, patio boxes or even from the wild. We invite you to bring offerings of […]

Live as Children of Light

“But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that becomes visible is light.”  -Ephesians 5: 13-14a We are called to live as children of the light and we […]

Love and Hard Things

Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Faith, Salvation, Spirit. All these words are packed into these final verses of the book of Ephesians. These are among the most pious and abstract words in […]

Begin Where God Begins

John Wesley said once that “Religion if it is not to be the pious form of worldliness, if it is instead to be the response to the action of God, […]

When John Wesley Lost His Mind

Faith without works is dead. One of the most often quoted bible verses from one of the shortest books in the New Testament. It becomes a mantra of sorts from […]

Habits of Hospitality: Offering Peace

“If anyone is there who shares in your peace, your peace will rest on that person.”  ~Luke 10: 6a Jesus sends more than seventy out on a mission of peace. […]