Imagine: Reaching Out Transforming Lives Empowering Servants
Serving Our Community and God’s World
We have a crisis on our hands. The statistics about hunger are gut wrenching. They tell a story of death. Our text for Sunday - Acts 9:36-43 – also tells the story of a crisis. Tabitha is dead. But then Peter comes and wrenches life from death. Tabitha is raised and many believe. Through our involvement [...]
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ACTING OUT is the story of Saul’s conversion from Acts 9. Not only does he end up with a new name, he ends up with a new identity as he encounters the Risen Christ. Saul is chosen to be An Instrument for telling the good news of Jesus Christ. He becomes a great proclaimer and a [...]
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From now until Pentecost on May 23rd, St. Mark’s UMC will be engaged in a Sermon Series entitled Acting OUT. Easter calls us to live differently. We can’t experience The Resurrection and then just go home. No, like the apostles, the early followers of Christ, we too must go Act OUT our faith. Throughout this [...]
The news of Easter cannot be contained! It must be told. While the call to “go and tell” is clear, we often hesitate or shy away from opportunities to share our faith story. In the days and weeks following the Resurrection of Jesus, Peter and John, along with many others, start telling any and everyone they [...]
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The news of the day can be heartbreaking. What kind of trajectory are we on? Who among us is not worried or anxious about their job, family, or future? It can be easy to descend into feelings of despair, hopelessness, and emptiness. When we find ourselves there where can we look for hope? Join the women [...]
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In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:4-6
He gives strength to the [...]
Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Psalm 51:12
It was the summer of 2002 and our first child, Caroline, was a young baby. I was over-the-moon excited about being a new mother and full of awe at this wonderful creation. It was a magical time [...]
Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and agitated. Then he said to them, “I am deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, [...]
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