I’m thankful today. Miss Lois taught me how to do that, and more importantly, how to be that. She was on tv’s classic children’s show, Romper Room.  Her words were “God is great, God is good, let us thank God.”…

Romper Room was a tv show where Miss Lois taught us pre-schoolers lots of stuff. In the Romper Room mix was the first prayer I ever learned. It began, “God is great.” Then, “God is good.” Miss Lois confirmed what…

Miss Lois taught me something about prayer on her Romper Room show. It began, “God is great.” The pre-school version of me, sitting in my footie jammies with cereal and milk spilled on my plaid robe, was learning significant theology…

True story, as told by Dr. Benno Muller-Hill, genetics professor at Germany’s University of Cologne, in The Quarterly Review of Biology, from when he was a high school student. He was the 40th student in line. They were getting to look at a…

Whenever anyone joins one of our local churches, we promise that with God’s help we will… “…be loyal to Christ through The United Methodist Church and do all in our power to strengthen its ministries….” Faith in Christ Jesus is at the…

“Prayers, presence, gifts, service and witness” are part of what we United Methodists promise when we join a local church. The first four have been a part of our membership questions and vows for a long time.  That fifth word,…

 “Like a body without breath is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.” —James 2:26 Service is the fourth thing Christians promise when we join The United Methodist Church. Being “can do” people is one of the hallmarks of our…

“Stir up the gift that is within you” —2nd Timothy 1:6 The third part of our United Methodist membership vow is about “gifts.” We all have them. Some gifts are evident and employed for the betterment of all. Some are…

Our prayers and our presence are the first two things we promise our Lord and each other when we join a United Methodist Church. Presence is about more than physically sharing space. Presence is simply and profoundly being there. I’ve…

Paul E. Black shared this — “Follow up information from Robinson First UMC: The church office is set up at Robinson Otterbein UMC. The office number of 618-544-8016 or 618-544-3411 will ring there. Rev. Tiffany Black’s parsonage number of 618-544-8744…