Archive for April 2021
18. End of Season 2!
Thank you to all who’ve listened and shared encouragement over the life of this podcast! We’re going away to plan and dream and come up with new ways to entertain you all. It will be awesome. Enjoy this last episode! Follow To the Table and the BUMC Student Ministry here: @tothetablebumcsm @bumcsm @a.c.jonesiv @mcknightowl @hannahlynn951…
Read MoreFinding our Identity in Christ
April 6, 2021 DAILY READING Colossians 3:12-17 FIELD NOTES Because of Easter, we claim a new identity in the Risen Christ. The Colossians, in this passage, are doing the same thing. Our identity is no longer primarily in our careers or our roles in our families. Our identity is in Christ. I remember a story about a committee…
Read MoreGod Delivers Us
April 5, 2021 DAILY READING Exodus 14:10-31 FIELD NOTES What a glorious Easter we celebrated yesterday! Christ has Risen! Death has been conquered! Glory to God! Amen! In these passages from Exodus, the Israelites were delivered from the spiritual death in Egypt where they were prevented from worshiping God and forced to work in slavery only to face…
Read MoreThe End is the Beginning (Dr. Davis Chappell)
This week’s preacher: Dr. Davis Chappell. Celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ with us! Our Scripture reading: Matthew 28:1-10
Read MoreWhat’s the Big Deal?
April 3, 2021 By Steve Schaffer Both my wife, Marilyn, and I are preacher’s kids. We’ve pretty much seen church stuff from both within and from without…a lot of good, for sure, but sometimes a little not so good. When I began thinking about Lent again this year, my first (young man’s) impulse was “Oh, man! Seen it,…
Read MoreBlack Friday? Holy Friday? Good Friday?
April 2, 2021 By Rev. Dietrich “Deech” Kirk, Executive Director of the Center for Youth Ministry Training DAILY READING Hebrews 10:16-25, Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9, John 18:1-19:42 I have always struggled with the name Good Friday. Have you? How can we call something good that seems to be so bad? Some call it Black Friday which seems more…
Read MoreMaundy Thursday (Rev. Casey Orr)
This week’s preacher: Rev. Casey Orr. We commemorate the Last Supper in which Jesus gave several final commands to his disciples – to love one another, serve one another and to remember him through the breaking of the bread. Our Scripture reading: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
Read MoreFoot Washing
April 1, 2021 By Bishop Joe Pennel DAILY READING John 13:1-7, 31-35 There was a good reason for foot washing in the time of Jesus. It was a sign of greeting and hospitality. Both feet were washed as a guest entered the home. Life was different in the time of Jesus. There were no paved…
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