Ears to Hear: A Litany for Listening One to the Other
I am a person of strong conviction and intense moral righteousness. I have a lot of… Read More
Today's Disciplines Devotion
If you have trouble appreciating this parable in which everybody behaves badly toward everybody else, you’re not alone. The interaction between the two groups of bridesmaids reads like a scene from...
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According to statistics from the General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist missionaries serve in professional careers as educators, health workers, pastors, evangelists, church coordinators, agriculturists, development specialists, community organizers, and...
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In some parts of Eastern DRC, traveling by road, air, or river can be challenging, as some areas still have pockets of active violent conflicts, remnants of these long years of...
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Sometimes we ask questions—in our minds or audibly—to clarify a situation or subject, to gain knowledge, or to generate new ideas. At other times we ask questions to guide a conversation...
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Since June 2018, I have been serving as a Global Ministries missionary in a post-conflict community and church reconstruction context with the East Congo Episcopal Area of The United Methodist Church...
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Jesus’ teaching authority is demonstrated concretely when a man possessed by an unclean spirit interrupts the lesson and asks, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you...
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We meet Jesus in Capernaum teaching in the synagogue on the sabbath. Mark does not tell us about the lesson because the lesson was not the point. The emphasis was on...
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Paul describes Christians who believe that it is sinful to eat the meat of animals sacrificed in the temples dedicated to idols as “weak in conscience.” But he also says that...
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In the eighth chapter of Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, he addresses whether it is lawful for a Christian to eat food that has been consecrated to an...
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When we place ourselves humbly at God’s feet and seek to learn, we find that we receive wisdom. The psalmist has experienced delight while observing “the faithful and just works of...
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The psalmist calls us to join our voices celebrating God’s divine attributes. The “works of God’s hands,” the psalmist proclaims, should be “studied.” At four intervals in the hymn of praise,...
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