Daily Advent Devotions from Church Street UMC Thursday, December 7 By Jenny Cross, Director of Youth Ministries Pleased to Dwell Read: Colossians 1:15-20 There is a familiarity to the Christmas story that often distracts me from the magnitude of it all. The poor mother and father traveling to the small town. The farm animals surrounding […]
Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family Week of December 6, 2023 Rev. Catherine Nance Tonight’s prayer is adapted from one I found written by Christine Sine on the Godspace website. I like the refrain, “Come down, come in, and, come among us.” That could be a simple and inviting breath prayer to offer during […]
Daily Advent Devotions from Church Street UMC Wednesday, December 6 By Dona Bunch The Miracle of Transformation Read: Ezekiel 36:26 & 2 Corinthians 5:17 At this fall’s 50th anniversary meeting of the Holston Conference United Women in Faith, the newly elected General Secretary spoke of “transformation” in the Methodist Church and in the United Women […]
Daily Advent Devotions from Church Street UMC Tuesday, December 5 By Rev. Jim Bailes, Retired Associate Pastor Behold, Our God! Read: Isaiah 40:9 “The way we conceive of the future sculpts the present, gives contour and tone to nearly every action and through the day. If our sense of future is weak, we live listlessly. […]
Daily Advent Devotions from Church Street UMC Monday, December 4 By Steve Richardson What Are We Waiting For? Read: Mark 1:1-4 … As it is written in the prophet Isaiah … “Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” Waiting. It’s one of those things encountered by every human being. Waiting is not […]
Daily Advent Devotions from Church Street UMC Sunday, December 3, Evening By Rev. Andy Ferguson, Retired Senior Pastor Christmas! Umm, No, Wait Read: Luke 1:26-38 In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God… to a maiden engaged to a man whose name was Joseph. The maiden’s name was Mary. When Celia told […]
Daily Advent Devotions from Church Street UMC Sunday, December 3 By Rev. Catherine Nance Magic Word Read: Isaiah 64:1 O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence! My mind goes back to early 70’s Saturday morning TV. For us pre-teens and early teens, […]
Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family Week of November 29, 2023 Rev. Jan Buxton Wade Holy and Elusive God, we enter your presence in these moments because we desire to know your truth. We seek to comprehend the whole of you, often trying to define you with names and attributes. Yet our spiritual impulses […]
Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family Week of November 22, 2023 Rev. Catherine Nance God is great; God is good. Let us thank God for our food. Amen. We learned this prayer at an early age, O God. Eyes closed, head bowed, hands folded. We were not even sure who ‘God’ was, but we […]
Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family Week of November 11, 2023 Rev. Tim Best Gracious Lord, Thank you for the overwhelming abundance of your love. In your love we discover that we need not try to save ourselves. We hear the voices of the world around us speaking doubt and fear. It is so […]
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