Online Resources: All Articles

Articles are listed in reverse chronological order. 

• Give Yourself by Kim Jenkins, executive director, Open Door Community House, Columbus, Ga.
  03/12/2011 A fast is meant to be a time of personal reflection on our own need for God's mercy. It should be bathed in humility and a sincere desire to move beyond our current state of sinfulness.

• And Also Much Cattle by Thomas Reppart, Epworth Village, York, Neb.
  03/11/2011 Why does God care for whom he cares? Why for so much of the time does God's job description seem to be to rescue the perishing, care for the dying? Just how does God snatch them in pity from sin and the grave? Why did Jesus weep o'er the erring one, lift up the fallen? Why should I tell the poor wanderer a Savior has died?

• Set Apart for the Gospel by the Rev. Elaine Fahrmeier
  03/10/2011 Rev. Fahrmeier became "transformed and reminded that God can touch even the most fragile of little souls and transform them."

• Ash and Faith: A Reflection on Ash Wednesday by Glory E. Dharmaraj
  03/09/2011 The images associated with Easter and Christmas are visually more pleasing than those associated with Ash Wednesday. The latter is stuck with images of ashes and sackcloth. Aesthetically speaking, ratings drop at these images. We don't give ashes much thought. Perhaps for this reason, marketers do not position their products around ashes and burlap clothes.

• From The Water's Edge
  02/18/2011 I present to you your new mission team. We lift up this team and their gifts and look forward with hope and love to the way you will live out your gifts in ministry.

• Tomorrow is for...
  02/18/2011 You have made a commitment to United Methodist women, but more importantly--to God!

• The Good Shepherd
  02/18/2011 You are the ones who have answered " yes " to the call to serve as district officers.

• Rainbows for Mission
  02/18/2011 These colorful flowers truly remind us of the rainbow and God's promise. It reminds us too, of the promise Jesus made when he said, "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the ends of the earth." May God's presence be real to you as you serve the Creator well as a part of the leadership of this unit during the coming year and throughout your life.

• The Purpose Is Our Key
  02/18/2011 The organized unit of UNITED METHODIST WOMEN shall be a community of women whose PURPOSE is to know God and to experience freedom as whole persons through Jesus Christ; to develop a creative, supportive fellowship; and to expand concepts of mission through participation in the global ministries of the church.

• Corinthians by Cathy Smith
  02/18/2011 I present to you your new mission team. May the Holy Spirit help them to use their gifts to work together.

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