When I was a little kid, growing up in Kentucky, there was a southern saying that I always hated to hear. The phrase "Shame on you"...

Holy Week is a time to grow deeper in our practice of prayer. I highly recommend spending some time in our stations of the cross this...

Christmas and Easter are both times where we experience Christ's solidarity with us. At Christmas we focus on the incarnation, of God...

We all have those places we go when we are overwhelmed and we need rest. For some, it is a vacation on a beach or a ski trip. When I'm on...

There are some who feel that we don't fully observe Advent, that we dive right into Christmas, instead of seeing Advent as a time of...

Over the years, most of us have experienced a change in our sense of home. As a child, it was our house in Lexington, Kentucky, with the...

So many great things this week! Saturday, I worked alongside people from other Casselberry area churches to clean up the lawns of some...

One of the things that I both love and hate about being a solo pastor at a church is the wide variety of skills and tasks that are needed...

In season one of the Apple TV series Ted Lasso, he seems to be kind of a goofy, happy-go-lucky guy, heavy on the dad jokes, but in season...

There were so many great things this past week. As the Pumpkin Patch and Rummage Sale were happening, we celebrated the wedding of Justin...

Sometimes it feels like everything is changing. Last week I went to the car wash around the corner. In the past, I pulled up, left the...

This week, as we talk about serving, I was made aware of how many people are doing so many amazing things in our church. Monday, the...

Sunday's message was title Open the Floodgates, in talking about the power of prayer. I shared some prayer breakthroughs I have had and...

Even though I was always the last kid picked for a team in PE, I love using different sports as analogies in ministry. Teamwork, focus,...

Last week Bishop Ken Carter held a Zoom meeting for clergy in the Florida Conference to talk about some priorities that he described as...

In the past couple of weeks I started watching the show Friday Night Lights on Netflix. Like some of my other favorite tv shows, The West...

People have all kinds of feelings about blended worship. Blended worship is taking elements of traditional worship and elements of...

Last week, receiving 10 new members was like a bolt of lightning to our church! As we welcome new families and celebrate the presence of...

The first church I served, City Road United Methodist in Henderson, North Carolina, was a very self-sustaining congregation. Even though...

Since I got back from vacation, there has been a renewed sense of purpose in my work in the church. I truly feel the movement of the Holy...