The Upside Down Leadership of the Gospel
September 7, 2020 DAILY READING Psalm 100 1 Peter 5:1-5 This week’s sermon text: James 3:1-12 FIELD NOTES When most people think about the world’s great leaders, they imagine figures that can command people’s attention, that demand respect from others, that are brilliant orators, or that can bend other people’s will to their own, even…
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This week’s preacher is Rev. Shelby Slowey. We continue our series, Teach Us to Pray, on the prayer life of Jesus. This series is the first in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called “Walking with Jesus.” Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey. Our Scripture reading: Luke…
Read MoreAutopilot
September 5, 2020 DAILY READING Psalm 119:33-37 “Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes, and I will observe it to the end. Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart. Lead me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in it. Turn my…
Read MorePraise the Lord!
September 4, 2020 DAILY READING Psalms 149:5-9 “Let the faithful exult in glory; let them sing praises for joy on their couches. Let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands, to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples, to bind their kings with fetters…
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September 3, 2020 DAILY READING Psalms 149:1-4 “Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the faithful. Let Israel be glad in its maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King. Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and…
Read MoreLet My People Go
September 2, 2020 DAILY READING Exodus 7:16-18 “Say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to say, “Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness.’ But until now you have not listened. Thus says the Lord, ‘By this you shall know that I am the Lord.’…
Read MoreFocusing on God
September 1, 2020 DAILY READING Revelation 3:7-8 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens, ‘I know your works. Look, I have set…
Read MoreSpeaking Up
August 31, 2020 DAILY READING Exodus 4:11-12 “Then the Lord said to him, ‘Who gives speech to mortals? Who makes them mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you are to speak.’” FIELD NOTES God knew that…
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This week’s preacher: Dr. Laura Brantley. We continue our series, Teach Us to Pray, on the prayer life of Jesus. This series is the first in our year-long focus on intentional discipleship called “Walking with Jesus.” Learn how you can be more intentional in your walk with Jesus at bumc.net/journey. Our Scripture reading: Luke 9:18-20
Read MoreHe Took Up Our Infirmities and Bore Our Diseases
August 29, 2020 DAILY READING Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45b Exodus 4:1-9 Matthew 8:14-17 FIELD NOTES When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on him. When evening came, many who…
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