The View from the Pews – 5/7/12

Dear Church Family Did you catch the snappy change in this missive’s title.  Yes….yesterday I spent most of my time sitting next to my lovely wife, watching and listening to a 45 minutes sermon preached by the children of the Chancel Choir (3rd-5th graders).  It was great! Mary Grace Collins, Jonathan Jain, Bodey Ellis, Marshall [...]

The View from the Pulpit – 4/23/12

The View from the Pulpit April 23, 2012 Dear Church Family: Grace and Peace to you all in the Name of the One who names us, Jesus Christ. My grammar checker tells me that first sentence is an incomplete thought or fragment.  I’ve re-read it several times, trying to understand what’s wrong; trying to restate [...]

The View from the Pulpit – 4/16/12

Dear Church Family: Easter 2B is its “official” designation in the Church Calendar.  Easter is a big deal.  I’d like to be able to say that Easter is the longest season of the year.  But it’s not.  Lent (4 weeks) prepares us for Christmas (2 or 3 weeks) which leads to Epiphany (fluctuates depending on [...]

The View from the Pulpit – 4/10/12

Dear Church Family: Yes, it was a beautiful morning to celebrate Easter.  The sun shined bright through the stained glass, highlighting the Spirits movement through our acts of praise and punctuating our prayers.  The Carol Choir (Pre-school to 2nd Grade) led by Amy Williams and accompanied by Dianne Carter set the mood as they called [...]

The View from the Pulpit – 4/2/12

Dear Church Family: I might as well begin this little reflection with the elephant that is in the room; well maybe it’s not in your room yet but it moved in to the parsonage last Monday and it made itself known yesterday (Sunday) afternoon to the members of 1st UMC’s Pastor/Staff Parish Relations Committee; or [...]

The View from the Pulpit – 3/27/12

Dear Church Family: Grace and Peace to you in the Name of the One who is God’s Son, God’s Messiah, God’s own love given so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but have eternal life.  It is appropriate that this week reminds us to be aware of the life God has promised [...]

The View from the Pulpit – 3/19/12

Dear Church Family The fragrance of “Old Spice” still follows me.  It’s Monday morning and the reenactment still reminds me of that story told second by Mark as he reviews the activities of Holy Week’s Wednesday.  I tried (not to hard) to wash it off this morning, but it seems to have penetrated the pores [...]

The View from the Pulpit – 3/13/12

Dear Church Family: “Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.” (1 Cor. 12:1) Paul writes to us, I mean the church at Corinth, because he wants us, I mean the church at Corinth, to know how to be The Church that God can use to show the [...]

The View from the Pulpit – 3/5/12

Dear Church Family: I am blessed when moments of worship just seem to fall into place in the right order and the Holy Spirit is felt.  For some Holy reason that’s what I felt during UpWords yesterday, blessed.  (Please, those of you who worshiped during The Celebration don’t be offended.  I loved the music offered [...]

The View from the Pulpit – 2/27/12

Dear Church Family I have to begin this morning with some big “thank you”s to the so many who made last week’s busy schedule here at 1st UMC Kennett happen.  Who knew that the week before the 1st Sunday of Lent would be so full? We need to thank JoBeth for doing the extra work [...]

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