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The Promise of Blessing

Posted by Erik Hall on

Every morning, I wake up and take our two dogs downstairs for breakfast and a walk. And every morning, the first thing our Golden Retriever (Nala) does when she gets downstairs is to flop on her back for a belly rub. In nature, animals have an instinct to protect the vulnerable parts of their...

The Promise of Forbearance

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If you worry about the end of the world…   GOOD NEWS! It’s happened already. And God has promised it will never happen again. Early on in human history God became remorseful because the evil inclinations of humankind were ruling and ruining the world God had created...

The Promise of Life

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Posted by Erik Hall on

Why do we exist? Why does anything exist? Isn’t it really really really odd that we exist at all? I know, these aren’t questions we typically ask ourselves in the midst of daily, hectic life in the 21st century. We focus on surviving and thriving day by day, year by year. We are...

Fulfilled: Serving is the Mission

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For the next four weeks we will be taking a slightly different approach to the weekly blog. Together with our worship theme: ‘Fulfilled: The Church on Mission’, we will be reflecting on questions relating to the mission of the St. Andrew UMC:   Welcoming all to where Christ is...

Fulfilled: Love is the Answer

Posted by Erik Hall on

For the next four weeks we will be taking a slightly different approach to the weekly blog. Together with our worship theme: ‘Fulfilled: The Church on Mission’, we will be reflecting on questions relating to the mission of the St. Andrew UMC:   Welcoming all to where Christ is...

Fulfilled: Christ is the Center

Posted by Erik Hall on

For the next four weeks we will be taking a slightly different approach to the weekly blog. Together with our worship theme: ‘Fulfilled: The Church on Mission’, we will be reflecting on questions relating to the mission of the St. Andrew UMC:   Welcoming all to where Christ is...

Fulfilled- Welcoming All

Posted by Erik Hall on

For the next four weeks we will be taking a slightly different approach to the weekly blog. Together with our worship theme: ‘Fulfilled: The Church on Mission’, we will be reflecting on questions relating to the mission of the St. Andrew UMC:   Welcoming all to where Christ is...

Fulfilled: The Church on Mission

Posted by Erik Hall on

These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled (Luke 24:44). Jesus fulfilled God’s plan for the redemption of the world! We are new creations in Christ! So...

Real & Present Savior

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What’s next? After celebrating Easter, the pinnacle of the Christian experience, rejoicing in the fulfillment of the coming of the long-promised savior, and marveling at how God turned the torture and death of the cross into the hope and life of the resurrection, what’s next?! The...

Follow Jesus: New Life

Posted by Erik Hall on

Part of being human is learning to live with limitations. We have physical limitations (we can only run so fast, jumps so high, see so far); intellectual limitations (we can only learn so much, so fast, so comprehensively); emotional limitations (we can only deal with so much love, hate, fear...