Birthday Celebration and Commitment

Today, we join a million plus Free Methodist friends around the world in celebrating 157 years of life and ministry together as a freedom movement in companionship with Jesus our Messiah. We celebrate the freedoms achieved for human beings through the loving self-giving of Jesus to death and then through death to Life–freedom in the …

The First Day of the Week

On the first day of the week we became Easter People.  Our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things were made in the beginning, has initiated the new creation.  Just as in the first beginning, Jesus completed the work—living among us, proclaiming Kingdom-come, casting out demons, healing the sick, mending the broken, confronting the powers …

THE DREAM LIVES ON

On this day marking the life, leadership and martyrdom of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, we should pause to give thanks that indeed black lives matter!  I am grateful that the life of Dr. King, a man of color, mattered so profoundly, though cut so tragically short.  It would do us all good to read again his now …

POLITICAL QUESTIONS—IS THERE HOPE?

Liar vs. Lecher. That could well be what the marquee reads out front of today’s political arena.  The followers of each engage in fierce fighting for their contender—“fanatical” seems apt to me as a normative, rather than extreme, descriptor.  In one corner, just as some alleged lies fade into the past a new spate of …

This is our Story, our Song

I’ve been thinking about that classic gospel song, Fannie Crosby, Blessed Assurance, especially its chorus, which I would adjust slightly, as follows: this is our story, this is our song, praising our savior all the day long! I’d would suggest that in ways far beyond what Crosby could have foreseen, this chorus is so apt, …