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Category: eNotes

Pastor’s eNote: Methodist Approach to Self-Examination and Growth

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With all the books and systems and popular culture fads available right now for self-transformation, I felt led to share what we as Wesleyan theologians have used for a couple hundred years. We all need something that is useful every day, or every week, depending on how busy the schedule, to humbly reflect on where […]

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Pastor’s eNote: Communal Spirituality Will Change the World

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Based on the study of Romans 12 Recently, “Open My Eyes” from the United Methodist Hymnal spoke to my heart. Specifically… Whether studying history or today’s headlines it’s frightening to see what human beings do to each other. We see history unlike those living it, results in context, and judge, “how could people not see […]

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Pastor’s eNote: The Christmas Conference of 1784

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The Methodist movement began in 18th century England. But when The Church of England refused to ordain some of John Wesley’s Methodist preachers preparing to be sent to America, God made a way. There was urgent need because The Church of England’s priests had returned home leaving no one in America to administer the sacraments […]

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Pastor’s eNote: Grateful for the Peace, Purpose, & Point of “The Sword”

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Matthew 10:34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I came not to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his […]

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Pastor’s eNote: Getting to the Root of the Fruit

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A friend asked, “Do manipulated words manipulate people?” We were discussing the ongoing war on words and representations and the division and pain it causes. We discussed that two things can be true at the same time, like it can be sunny and raining, I’ve experienced that irony often. But two totally opposite things cannot […]

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Pastor’s eNote: Why do bad things happen to good people?

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Recent events have brought this question to the forefront of many minds.  Although we ask it over and over, the answers never change. You and I have a choice in life, the option to do good or bad.  We have free will, a gift from God. Our choices, and those made by others near to […]

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Pastor’s eNote: The Keys to Making Better Decisions and Becoming a Non-Anxious Presence

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A question came to me by email from someone who watches services online. I know that being cooped up during COVID has made me more cynical. I say stuff before thinking and that’s not the me I want to be. How do I stop? I need more peace and to make better decisions. Anonymous This […]

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Pastor’s eNote: I AM Your Neighbor

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In the Parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus addressed grace and social responsibility by talking about the dangers of traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho, something well understood by the hearer. But this parable is the response to two questions, not one, and that second question reveals a guilty conscience. First the man asked, “what must […]

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Pastor’s eNote: The 12 Days of Christmas, Explained

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Researching The Twelve Days of Christmas and what it means to us The 12 Days of Christmas begin December 25th and end January 5th the day prior to the Feast of Epiphany. The Twelvetide was created in the year 567 by the Council of Tours as a sacred and festive season of Advent (waiting) and […]

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Pastor’s eNote: What Reading God’s Word Makes Possible…Maturity in Christ

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Discipline – training that corrects, molds, or perfects the mental faculties or moral character What is training? It’s learning. Sometimes by example. Sometimes the hard way. Why do we learn? To live the best life we may. We also learn in order to teach others and raise them up by sharing what has worked and […]

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NEW: Kindness Study

Worship & More

  • September 24, 2023 Worship – Why Don’t We Get What We Deserve?
  • September 17, 2023 Worship – How to Forgive Like a Christian (and What is Apologetics?)
  • September 10, 2023 Worship – How Do I Fight Like a Christian?
  • September 3, 2023 Worship – “From that time on…”
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Pastor Theresa Heiser

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