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Methodism

Live Blogging Adam Hamilton Session 1 — Leadership

The challenges ahead of us are huge, and we have to be able to lead in new ways, not worrying about things like apportionments. We are in part in a leadership crisis. Seminaries don’t do a very good job in training folks to offer leadership in a church in crisis. Telling the story of his […]

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Methodism

Skipping Ordination

Ten years ago, at a gathering of the Tennessee Annual Conference not unlike the one I am currently attending, I knelt at an altar and felt Bishop Kenneth Carder lay his hands upon me for my ordination as a probationary deacon (I came in under the 1992 Book of Discipline). It was certainly not the […]

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Devotional Art

Psalm 33:5

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Devotional Art

Psalm 133: 1-4

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Church Faith Preaching

Prophetic Preaching and the Good News

Last week I started a series of sermons titled: The Embracing Church: Life in the Expansive Kingdom of God. It is a series looking that assumes that the God who embraces all of us likewise wants the Body of Christ to be about embrace as well. Last week, I preached a variation on the post […]