Spiritual Vitamin

Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. I Corinthians 12:27   I have had several questions and comments about the 2012 General Conference (GC) of the United Methodist Church, so I thought I’d share just a little bit about it. Most of it you already know, but here [...]

  Blessed Are You Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them, saying…. Matthew 5:1-2   When Fred Buechner (Whistling in the Dark) looks at the Beatitudes of Jesus — The 8 Big Ideas —  he notices what we [...]

Spiritual Vitamin April 25 “Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you…” Mark 5: 19   Go and tell….something Jesus WANTED his followers to do then, and something Jesus WANTS his followers to do now. Go and tell what has happened to you. Go and tell [...]

Spiritual Vitamin April 11, 2012 “The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.”  Acts 11:26b   Did you know that the term “Christian” only appears three times in the New Testament?  The most significant occurrence is shown above.  In this instance the term Christian is used to describe the followers of Jesus.  It is interesting [...]

And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” Isaiah 6:8   In recent years Good Friday has become not only a day we “remember” what God has done in Jesus Christ (love for all the world!), but a day we act it out in real ways (going door to door with love and food for [...]

ONE COMPLETE AND SHINING LIFE!   The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth John 1:14   Next Monday night the Final Four will come to a dramatic (hopefully exciting) [...]

  MEETING TOGETHER And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another….Hebrews 10:24 Pastors get quite a few questions in a normal week. Some of them we can answer (“Yes, I [...]

Now he had to go through Samaria Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.  John 4: 4, 6   A WOMAN AT THE WELL This picture (above) is Mietta. I made up the spelling. Actually, I have no idea how [...]

RELIEF LORD, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief.   Psalm 143: 1   Concern for the suffering, help for those in need, support for those who have questions, assistance for those who are rebuilding, prayers for all – the world sees the love [...]

I WAS THIRSTY I was thirsty and you gave me a drink   Matthew 25: 35   This week a small mission team will assemble in Atlanta, GA, to head to Burkina Faso, Africa.  Included on that mission team will be four members of the Burkina Faso Team here at Clay Church: Doug Fecher, Dee Dee [...]