“Hey, would you mind telling me some more about what you believe?” That question is likely to get us thinking, get our blood pressure to rise, get us wondering how we respond. There’s excitement in the question, but there is maybe some trepidation as well – “am I going to answer this in the right…
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Posts from January 2026
This Epiphany, we’re asking you to consider the people around you that are disconnected from God and/or the Church. We’re asking you to think about them and asking the question: is this person unreceptive, curious, or seeking? Today we’re going to talk about the people in our lives who are unreceptive to the Gospel. Being…
We’ve been praying for three people in our Sunday morning service for a while now. We’re doing this because of a challenge from our District Convention this summer. I don’t know about you, but I have found some difficulty in this prayer. In the prayer, we take a moment to silently pray for three people…
RSVP – it stands for “Répondez s’il vous plaît,” a command that says (nicely), “Please respond.” Throughout the season of Epiphany (starting January 6 and ending this year on February 17), we will be using those four French words as the unifying principle of what we’re talking about in worship and beyond. The idea of…