“You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on…

There’s a new phrase coined by millennials called “quiet quitting.” Quiet quitting doesn’t mean  someone has actually quit their job. It means they have chosen to do the bare minimum…

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of…

The passage from Mark 9 follows a significant moment in the life of the inner circle of Jesus’ disciples Peter, James and John.  The moment is literally a “mountain top…

This weekend our global partners at Samara United Methodist Church are celebrating 30 years of being a registered church in Russia. The relationship between HPCUMC and SUMC began in 1996…

“Now faith is the confidence in what we hope for and the assurance about what we do not see.”  Hebrews 11:1 Got faith?   Often we talk about faith as…

How is your worry level today? While some of us can pass a blood pressure test, if we added a sleeping well test, and a worry-o-meter test (I thought I…

Luke Chapter 11 is about a teaching between Jesus and his disciples.  It begins after Jesus is praying in a “certain place.”  A disciple asks for direction on prayer style…

One of the gifts of being a new person in a new place is that you have a unique opportunity to experience that situation for the first time.  As you…