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 …
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The Sky is NOT Falling!
Here is a paragraph from Henny Penny, more commonly known as Chicken Little, a folk tale about a chicken who believes the world is coming to an end. ** As Chicken Little was one day strolling about in a garden, she ran under a rose-bush and a leaf fell on her tail. A Fox was standing by, who wanted to …
Following Jesus and Making Peace in a Violent World
No one will question that we live in a violent world. No one will doubt that most of the world powers assume that violence must be met by violence. And, oddly to some, many if not most Christians also assume that the great evils of our day will be resolved inevitably only by some use …
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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 …
SAVE THE CHILDREN!
“When they start gassing the children, enough is enough! Someone needs to do something, fast! The people who have power need to step in, stop the madness, save the children!” I imagine something like that within the mind and heart of our President last Thursday as he announced his ordering of an airstrike on the …