Hoosier. Dad. Husband. Methodist Pastor
Sheridan, IN
Joined February 2010
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Financial problems in the life of the Church never have financial solutions. So, our question should not be, “How do we restructure to fix a financial problem?”, but, “How do we renew a nation with the gospel of Jesus Christ?” -- churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2…
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Attention Young Men:
I am surrounded by 20 year old girls in my life that are smart, capable, hard working and cute. Nobody is dating them. Not sure what the deal is, but I don’t get it.
Step 1: Stop playing video games
Step 2: Head to great clips and get that lettuce cleaned up
Step 3: Hit a shower (when dating hygiene is critical)
Step 4: Go clean your car
Step 5: Sign up for a yoga class
Step 6: Go to the yoga class
Step 7: Ask a cute for her phone number at yoga class (yes you can meet girls IRL and not just on the apps - 10/10 the Dirt Dog highly recommends)
Step 8: Follow up within 2 days with a phone call and ask them out for this coming weekend Friday or Saturday night.
Step 9: IMPORTANT - come up with a good game plane for date night. Get a dinner reservation, get an activity planned. Let them know in advance what you are doing so they can dress appropriately. I know you are gunna roll off the couch and head to date night, but they are not. They are going to stress about what to wear and call at least 6 different people on FaceTime to ask their opinion.
Step 10: I highly recommend you bring flowers to the door step. I’m not covering that you go to the doorstep, because if you don’t do that you have no hope here. Women want men to date them. You don’t need to break the bank on flowers. Head to Trader Joe’s. Grab 2 different kinds of flowers. If you don’t know what matches find the closest looking lady to your mom at TJ’s and ask her. Wrap the 2 flowers into 1 bouquet with paper. Bonus Points you can cut open a TJ bag and use that as the paper.
Step 11: Be a gentleman on the date. She isn’t there to hear your life story. Ask her about her. For every 1 question you answer, ask her 3. Open Doors, pay for the meal, be polite.
Provided you follow most of this guideline you are highly likely to get yourself an opportunity for date number 2.
Keep going until you find someone that you can’t imagine not being around all the time. That’s when you have found a good one for you.
My life is complete with my wife as my companion. I wish you the same fortune in life. Happy Hunting.
In Acts 11:19-21, believers in Antioch preach the word to the Jews. Then believers from outside Antioch show up and start preaching Jesus to non-Jews. Many come to the Lord. Maybe this whole "preaching the Lord Jesus Christ" thing is a strategy we American believers should try.
I see lots of push back on @redeemed_zoomer's claims about schism. Do these folks think what he is arguing never was true in the eyes of God or that it no longer is true for some reason? I wonder how Augustine in the midst of Donatism would view his argument.
A wonderful conversation about faith and politics right now
youtu.be/92ZpzYeeZiI?is=QLMk…
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John Meunier retweeted
Free Methodist church forced their pastor to resign in the 1890’s cause he wore a mustache
John Meunier retweeted
Are poorer people more likely to go church?
Or is it rich people?
The answer is: it's folks in the middle incomes who are the most likely to be weekly attenders.
Attendance peaks among people w/household incomes of $50-$120K
John Meunier retweeted
Being in the PCUSA has taught me something over the years: not all liberals in the church are the same
There are many who, despite holding to liberal positions on cultural issues that I would disagree with, sincerely love Jesus and are often much better Christians than I am. These people tend to seek fellowship with conservatives like me. Most liberals in the PCUSA (in terms of population) fall into this camp.
There are others, however, who have no regard for Scripture or objective theology and see the church solely as an organ of advancing their pet social causes. These folks tend to want to exclude conservatives. Most liberals in PCUSA executive positions fall into this camp
Of all the things said in favor of the #UMC delisting Asbury seminary, I did not expect to read someone quoting Wesley's sermon "Catholic Spirit" to make a case why the UMC should refuse to work with Asbury.
“And if you will here stop and ask yourselves, why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you, that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.” William Law
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Does the #UMC have a clergy crisis? My annual conference has had very small ordination and commissioning classes recently. Maybe with our collapsing number of churches that can support an elder, this is not really a problem. More than 50% of our appointments are local pastors.
I listened to an recording of William Law's A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life. In the preface it noted that Law was falsely accused of being a Methodist, a charge his contemporary defenders thought was scurrilous. This is when the name "Methodist" stirred emotions.
#UMC
What are you going to accomplish in the next three weeks?
The Committee of Five—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman—was appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago today.
Jefferson's draft of the document is here at the Library, and will be featured in a new exhibition opening July 3.
ALT A view of Thomas Jefferson's rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, hand-written with edits placed throughout. Held in the Library of Congress Jefferson Collection. Photo by Shawn Miller.
ALT A view of Thomas Jefferson's rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, hand-written with edits placed throughout. Held in the Library of Congress Jefferson Collection. Photo by Shawn Miller.
ALT A view of Thomas Jefferson's rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, hand-written with edits placed throughout. Held in the Library of Congress Jefferson Collection. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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If you are a part of the Down syndrome community, you already know the story about a man who posted the decision he and his wife made to abort their baby because he or she had a DS diagnosis.
The man wrote about the many health issues that people with Down syndrome face. /1
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You might just discover in yourself strength, compassion, and determination that you never would have known you had if it had not been for that little person with an extra chromosome who came to be a part of your family. /10
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