Truth, Doubt, and Lies In the here and now, we face some serious challenges when discerning truth from untruth (also known as lies). Moreover, there is a great deal of doubt relating to authority, experts and governments—sometimes with good reason and other times with dubious reason. Social media news and opinion is a powerful...
Read MoreReflection from June 5, 2022
Acts 2:14Feast of Pentecost and Feast of WeeksExodus 34: 22-23Jesus tells his disciples 40 days before his ascension to go to Jerusalem and wait for the Holy Spirit they gathered there 10 days after his ascension which equals 50 days which is where Pentecost comes from.The day of Pentecost changed people , one example is
Read MoreNew Artwork Outside the Church
Nick Stoikos is a local artist who, just in time for Pentecost, completed and donated a stone mosaic that is now in-place around the Woodland Beach Church sign at the road. Nick is the great grandnephew of Peter Bryce who preached the first sermon in the church almost one hundred years ago. Nick wanted to
Read MoreMessage from May 29, 2022
My message this morning expands on a meditation that comes from the writings of Kenneth L. Carder, Bishop of the Mississippi Area of the United Methodist Church, Jackson, Mississippi. He wrote this in “The Upper Room Disciplines’ 2004”. The readings I am referencing are all about the promise and coming of the Holy...
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