Royse City Methodist Church: Recent Episodes
Pastor Chris Everson
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Pastor Chris continues our series on the Invitations from Jesus with this message from John 15: 9-17
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Pastor Chris continues our series on the Invitations we receive from Jesus in the Gospels. This week we look at how Jesus invites us to ask and seek him and his kingdom.
Pastor Chris starts our new series by looking at four invitations we receive from Jesus. The first invitation, Come and Follow Me.
Pastor Chris concludes the series on the Gospel of Mark by talking about the parable of the sower from Mark 4
Pastor Chris talks about Jesus calming the storm in Mark 4 as we continue our series in the Gospel of Mark.
Pastor Frances continues our series on the Gospel of Mark with this message from Mark 3
Pastor Chris continues our series on the Gospel of Mark talking about our relationship with the Sabbath?
Pastor Chris and the church celebrate Vacation Bible School! We talk about how we can each be Super Hero's sharing the love of Jesus
Pastor Chris continues our series "The Gospel of Mark" with this message from Mark 2: 1-12
Pastor Chris begins our series on the Gospel of Mark with this message from Mark 1: 40-45
It's Ascension Sunday, and Pastor Chris talks about the work we are called to do after Jesus's Ascension.
Pastor Chris concludes our series "What's Next" as we talk about waiting for God. But we wait expectant, not passive.
Pastor Chris continues our series on "What's Next" focusing on listing to the Way God leads us.
Pastor Chris begins our new series by looking at what is next for our relationship with Christ and our community.
Pastor Chris's Palm Sunday message about Jesus on the Cross. Did Jesus feel forsaken by the Father?
Week four of our "Jesus the Stranger" series. Pastor Chris looks at Peter denying Jesus.
Pastor Frances continues our "Jesus the Stranger" series by looking at Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea.
Pastor Chris begins our new series "Jesus the Stranger" by looking at Peter's proclamation.
Pastor Chris concludes our "Mind of Christ" series with this message about Resting in Hope.
Pastor Chris continues our series "The Mind of Christ" with this message about Faith from James 2: 14-18
We welcome Rev. James Gilbert of Meeks Chapel/FAME Mission this Sunday as we celebrate the beginning of Black History Month. We are thankful for our partnership in ministry.
Pastor Chris continues our Mind of Christ series with this message from 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8
Pastor Chris continues our Mind of Christ series, looking at the first underlying condition of Joy.
Pastor Chris begins the series "Mind of Christ" with this message from John 11: 41-42. How do we train our hearts and minds toward gratitude?
Pastor Chris looks at the covenant renewal service and what we can learn from 2nd Kings 23: 1-3
Pastor Chris concludes our Advent series by talking about the covenant Jesus fulfilled.
Pastor Chris continues our Advent series by looking at Jacob and how he isn't that different from us.
Pastor Chris begins our Advent Series and the start of the Christian New Year with this message from Isaiah 11:1-3a
Pastor Chris concludes our stewardship series "Moving Forward" with this message from Galatians
Pastor Chris kicks off our 2023 Stewardship Series with this message from Joshua 1:6-9.
Pastor Chris concludes our "Story of David" series with this message about David and Bathsheba.
Pastor Chris continues our series of the Story of David with this message about the friendship between David and Jonathan.
Pastor Chris continues our series on the Story of David with this message on how to avoid Envy
Pastor Chris concludes our series on Royse City Values with this message from Galatians 3: 28
Pastor Chris continues our series on the values of our church with this message on Love from 1 John 4:16
Pastor Chris begins this series on values in our church.Note: Audio quality is not as good because service was in the youth room.
Pastor Chris concludes our Summer Stories series with this message on Living Joy.*Note Audio Quality isn't as good because we had to move this service into our youth room.
Week 3 of our summer stories series as we look at the Fruit of the Spirit looking at Self Control
Pastor Chris continues our Summer Stories series with this message on the patience of Paul.
With Vacation Bible School 2022 wrapping up, Pastor Chris brings this message on Trusting Jesus!
Pastor Chris concludes our series "Be A Disciple"All of us are Epaphras and called to Worship, Serve and Grow!
Pastor Chris continues our "Be A Disciple" series as we look at Jesus's words to Follow his commands. John 15: 9-17
Pastor Chris continues our series "Be A Disciple" with this message from Colossians 2: 6-10"We are an unceasing spiritual being with an eternal destiny in God's great universe." - Dallas Willard
Pastor Chris begins our new series this Pentecost Sunday. We begin on knowing who God is.
Pastor Frances Gonzalez brings her first sermon to Royse City First United Methodist Church
Pastor Chris concludes our series "All Grace is Amazing" with this message from Galatians 2: 19-21
Pastor Chris continues our series "All Grace Is Amazing" with this message about Justifying Grace from Romans 5
Pastor Chris continues our series "All Grace is Amazing" As we talk about a facet of grace that gets ignored. Convicting Grace.
Pastor Chris begins our "All Grace Is Amazing!" series with this message on Prevenient Grace.
Rev. Paul Meletic serves as a Deacon in the North Texas Conference steps in for Pastor Chris and brings this message Life in God's Name from John 20: 19-31
It's Palm Sunday and Pastor Chris concludes our series "A Jesus-Shaped Life" with this message from Luke 15
Week 5 of our Lent Series "A Jesus-Shaped LIfe" with this message about the Justice of Jesus.
Week 4 of our Lenten Series "A Jesus-Shaped Life" with our scripture from Romans 12: 1-2.The courage we need is to spend time in God's Word and in prayer.
Week 3 of our series "A Jesus-Shaped Life" talks about the importance of Relationships.
Pastor Chris begins our Lenten Series "A Jesus-Shaped Life" with this message called Made for this
Pastor James Gilbert from Meeks Chapel AME/FAME Mission preaches this Sunday in honor of Black History Month.
Pastor Chris concludes our series on covenants with this message about the new covenant.
Pastor Chris continues our series on Covenants, talking about God's covenant with Moses and the Israelites.
Pastor Chris continues our series on Covenants with this message about Abraham. Genesis 15: 1-18
We welcome the Rev. Dr. Frank Drenner from Grace UMC in Sherman, Tx as he and Pastor Chris do a pulpit swap this Sunday. Rev. Dr. Drenner continues our series of Covenants with the story of Noah.
Pastor Chris concludes our Advent/Christmas series on Epiphany Sunday with this message from Psalm 19
The 4th Sunday of Advent, Pastor Chris continues our Advent Mission Series with this message from Colossians 1: 19-20
It's the 3rd Sunday of Advent. Pastor Chris talks about the relationship between Mary and Elizabeth from Luke 1: 39-47
Pastor Chris continues our Advent Series "The Advent Mission" with this message from Isaiah 60
We begin this Christian New Year on the 1st Sunday of Advent. Pastor Chris begins our new series "The Advent Mission" with this message from Hebrews 10: 23-25.
Pastor Chris concludes this stewardship series with this message from 2 Corinthians 9: 6-15
Pastor Chris continues our Stewardship Series with this message from 2 ChroniclesTo visit our online giving and service cards go to https://fumcroysecity.life/stewardship-2021
It's All Saints Sunday and Pastor Chris honors those who passed in 2020-2021 with this message from 2 Corinthians 4: 16-18
We welcome Pastor Stephen Grays from New Hope Baptist Church as he shares this message from 1 Peter 2:9 and Revelation 3:20
Darrell Ortiz serves as the North Central District Director of Lay Servant Ministry in the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. He brings this message about Lay Servant Ministry from Matthew 28: 19-20.
Pastor Chris continues this series Journey of Prayer with this message from Matthew 11: 28-29
Pastor Chris begins our new series "Journey of Prayer" with this message from Hebrews 4: 14-16.Prayer is a conversation with God. Sometimes we can get stuck in our prayer life... but what if we look at prayer as just coming home to the God who loves and cares for us.
Pastor Chris concludes our Invitation to the Jesus LIfe series with this message from Galatians 2: 19-21
Pastor Chris continues the series "Invitation to the Jesus Life" with this message from Luke 6: 27-38
Pastor Chris continues our series "Invitation to the Jesus Life" with this message from Matthew 21
Pastor Chris continues our "Invitation to Jesus Life" series with this message from Matthew 9: 35-38
Pastor Chris continues our series "Invitation to the Jesus Life" with this message from James 1 and Mark 5
This Sunday we celebrate the Walk to Emmaus for more information visit https://www.dallasemmaus.org/
Pastor Chris begins our new series "Invitation to the Jesus Life" with this message from Ephesians 3: 14-21
Today we had one worship service where we celebrated our great VBS week! Mrs. Wanda and Lighthouse Keeper Heidi and Beacon share parts of VBS with the congregation.
Grace Millard - Perkins Intern from The First United Methodist Church of Rockwall fills in for Pastor Chris with this message from John 20: 24-29
Week five of our Reset series. Pastor Chris talks about why fasting is important for those who follow Jesus Christ.
The 4th sermon in our Reset series looking at the means of grace. This week Searching the Scriptures
The third sermon in our Reset series on the Means of Grace. Scripture is from James 5: 13-16
The second sermon in our Reset service focusing on the means of grace of Holy Communion.
Rev. Dr. Richard Dunigan fills in this Sunday for Pastor Chris and brings this message from 1 Peter.
Pastor Chris brings this message at our outdoor Easter service. The video quality isn't that good, because of the outdoor worship.
The 8:30 Palm Sunday sermon as we continue our series Listen to Him from Luke 19: 41-44
5th Sunday of Lent as we continue our study of the Gospel of Luke. Our scripture is Luke 18: 18-30.
4th Sunday of Lent as we continue our Listen to Him series with this sermon from Luke 15
The second sermon from our Brother's Keeper series, as Pastor Chris completes a Pulpit Swap with Pastor James Gilbert at Meeks Chapel AME church.Note, there may be issues with the sound quality of this sermon.
We are honored to have Rev. James Gilbert from Meeks Chapel AME/F.A.M.E Mission/Bethel AME churches preaching the 3rd sermon from our Brother's Keeper series.
Our District Superintendent, Rev. Dr. Ron Henderson fills in for Pastor Chris with his message this morning. Thank you Dr. Henderson!
Pastor Chris begins the New Year with a series called Awake O Sleeper. The first sermon reminds us to fix our eyes on Christ. Hebrews 12: 2-3
Pastor Chris begins our Advent series with the first sermon in our Christian New Year series.
Pastor Chris concludes this short series on the sacraments with this message on Holy Communion.
The last sermon in our Lord's Prayer service. The video picks up right when Pastor Chris begins the sermon. Audio has the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic.
Pastor Chris brings the next message in our Lord's Prayer series talking about the petition "Give us this day our daily bread."
This is the recording of the 8:30 service where Pastor Chris brings the second sermon in our Lord's Prayer series.
Our last sermon in the Apostles' Creed series as we look at the last two affirmations in the creed.
Pastor Chris begins his series on the Apostles' Creed looking at where the creed came from and the first statement of the creed.
Pastor Chris begins a study looking at three essential parts of our walk with Christ - Apostle's Creed, The Lord's Prayer, and the 10 Commandments.
Rev. Dr. Jan Davis from Central UMC in Fayetteville, Arkansas brings this message while Pastor Chris is on Vacation.
Pastor Chris begins a new service this week Encounter the Spirit. Today we are talking about the promise we have of the Holy Spirit being in our lives.
The Bishop of the North Texas Conference, Michael McKee brings this special message on Pentecost Sunday
Today is the first Sunday of May and normally we would serve communion, but with our community practicing social distancing, we will participate in an ancient practice called the Love Feast. Pastor Chris explains with scripture from Luke 9: 12-17
Pastor Chris brings this message on Easter Sunday in the middle of the COVID-19 social distancing. Christ is Risen! Christ is Risen Indeed Alleluia!
Palm Sunday at Royse City First United Methodist Church, our 4th Shelter at Home service. Scripture from Matthew 21: 1-11
This is the 3rd Online Worship only service during the Physical Separation due to COVID-2019
On March 15, Royse City First United Methodist Church held our first online-only worship service. Here is the facebook feed from that service
Rev. Cathy Partridge comes home and preaches for Pastor Chris. This is the second sermon in our Good and Beautiful Life series.
This Lenten season we will spend time in Jesus's teaching on the Sermon on the Mount. These words help us to live a life following the path of Christ.
We can have all the knowledge in the world, but it means nothing unless we live relationally with Jesus Christ.
Last week we looked at the entirety of Scripture tells the story of Jesus, what does it look like when we pick and choose what we want about Jesus and ignore the whole of the story?
Last week we set a definition of who Jesus is. This week we look at the book that tells us about Jesus.
Our first sermon in our High Christology series. - "What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us." - A.W. Tozer
Our task to to grow in Christlikeness. We do that when we gather together in groups to share in our lives, open God's Word and then put into practice.
It's what we do. To live as a servant of Christ, we reach out and serve others. But it isn't for a reward, it's following an example set to us from Christ.
Worship, it's what we do. We gather together, sing, pray, explore scripture... Why is this important?
It's a new year as we begin 2020 together. Let us join in renewing our covenant to serve God by making disciples and worshipping, serving, and growing.
We have reached the last Sunday of Advent, in 2 days we will gather to celebrate the birth of Jesus the Christ. Today we hear from Joseph. What would it be like to be the earthly dad of the Savior of the world?
Peace, that is a word that I think all people strive for. Peace at home, peace in the world, peace in our own lives. Today as we hear from the Shepherd, let us see what kind of peace we receive from our God.
It is so easy to let the Christmas story be the same story we hear year after year, we fail to let our imagination experience what the experience may have been. This week, let's take a look and see what Mary treasured and pondered in her heart about the Christ child.
Hope. It's a word that comes to life during the season of Advent. During the season of Advent, we talk about the coming of the Christ child, we talk about what Christ has done for us, but this year, what if we focused on what Christ continues to do for us?
We have reached our final sermon in our 2019 Stewardship Series. Today is commitment Sunday. As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, we give thanks for the ministry God has entrusted to us. As co-laborers of the faith, we pledge our prayers, presence, gifts, service, and witness to make disciples for Jesus Christ.
There is a blessing in giving. One of the blessings is that we have the opportunity to help others. What would it look like if we focused on the ministries of tomorrow and reach for helping all that we can, by doing all that we can?
Our District Superintendent Rev. Dr. Ron Henderson brings us this message from Genesis 12: 1-5 and Malachi 3: 8-12
Today we start our stewardship campaign. What better place to start than looking at one of Jesus's great miracles. How can his example help guide us to live a generous life when we share Christ's love with each other and our neighbor. We also remember those in our church family who passed away this past year on this All Saints Sunday.
"The future of the church." That is a false statement, the youth and children we have in our church are a part of the church today. Sometimes we look at ministry TO youth and children, but what if we looked at doing ministry WITH youth and children?
What is one of the church's most significant resources? Our Older Adults. There is a tendency not to listen or care from the younger generation, while older adults can feel like they’ve done their share for the church. How can we continue to listen and learn from those who have gone before us?
What, or maybe a better way to phrase the question, Who is the church? You and me, Those who sit in the seats on Sunday morning, but more importantly, those who serve the community around us during the week. We are encouraged to know that the church is not ours, but Christ’s.
This is one of the most important questions in Scripture. Jesus is with his disciples and asks them, "Who do you say I am?" The disciples give different answers before Peter lands on the correct answer.Over the next four weeks, we are going to look at this question concerning who we are. But first, we must understand who Christ is for us.
Prayer is one of those things that we hear a lot about but maybe the one thing that is easily dismissed in our lives.
Our final stop is in Laodicea, we end with the church that Christ has nothing nice to say about it. Lukewarm, what a tepid state of the church. But again, Christ gives grace and words to the church, that can also be words for us.
We arrive at the second to last church in Revelation. The image we see in this passage is an open door. Not just an open door, but one that will not shut. What a great vision for us. Sometimes we feel like we don’t have enough strength to make it through the next day, but thanks be to God, Christ is the one who opened the door for us and keeps it open so that we may receive his abundant blessings.
Ever hear the phrase finish strong? That is what Jesus is telling the church at Sardis. Sometimes we can easily get started but then grow weary with the task. Thanks be to God we have the table to come to be reminded of Christ great love for us so we can then go out and love others.
Listening to false teaching. That is the rebuke that the church of Thyatira receives. We always must be careful when we start talking about what is false and what isn’t. We must be sure that we are connected to Christ and his word.
As we visit the second church of Revelation, the word that comes to mind is suffering. Wow! Isn’t that what we want to hear on a Sunday morning. But there is freedom in suffering, and that freedom comes from Christ
The Book of Revelation is a difficult book. But within that book, there is a message for us. Over the next seven weeks, we will look at the seven churches that are addressed in chapters two and three: our first stop, Ephesus.
It's Vacation Bible School Celebration Sunday! What a great week we had and now we join together in worship to celebrate!
Mary and Martha, two sisters that have the opportunity to be with Jesus. We always hear that Mary was right, and Martha was wrong, but what if this story is telling us something different?
Rev. Dr. Ouida Lee fills in for Pastor Chris while he is with the youth at the #youth2019 event in Kansas City
We like to make the world more complicated than it really is. Remember the book “All I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten?” Sometimes it’s like that with our faith. We have a tendency to complicate issues of faith, but sometimes we just need to do what Jesus says.
Nathan Presley fills in for Pastor Chris while he is on vacation. He is preaching from Philippians 4:2-9
Today in the 11:00 service, we will confirm three young ladies into the life of Royse City FUMC. It’s a reminder of our call to be in ministry for each other, our community and world. Let us celebrate with our confirmands and reaffirm our commitment to Christ and his Church.
Pastor Chris finishes the series Blindsided this morning with this sermon. If you are in need of help. Contact the Suicide Hotline at 1-800-273-8255. Or contact the counseling service at https://www.higherhopescouncling.com
Theologians and philosophers say that of all the deadly sins, pride is the deadliest of all, the root of all evil, and the beginning of sin. Pride is a sin we easily fall into, but how can we guard ourselves against pride?
Irrelevance. It’s something we fight, but we like to hang on to our stuff, the way we have done things, but what if we tried to reach out to share the Gospel in different ways?
We have smart phones that keep us connected to everything around us. But somehow we feel even more disconnected. No wonder we ask, “Is Anyone Out There?”
Compromise is a tool that is used to bring sides together… or is it? There are times that we compromise our identity as those in whom Christ’s dwells in order to put on a different identity.
Pastor Chris kicks off our series "Blindsided" with the first message Fighting Cynicism. Cynicism is something that can quickly grab hold of us. But how do we overcome the negativity of Cynicism? We begin our 7-week series on ways that we can get blindsided by life.
Rev. Dr. Richard Dunagin fills in for Pastor Chris the Sunday after Easter with the message God's Breath.
Pastor Chris brings our Easter Message closing out the Good and Beautiful God Series.Christ is Risen! But what does that mean? When Christ emerged from the empty tomb, that changed everything. When we accept Christ into our lives, our lives our then changed.
We like to pick our version of who God is. And sometimes, we leave out the holiness of God, it’s fun to talk about how God is love, but to fully grasp the goodness of God, we must understand the holiness of God.
We look to gain approval in many different areas of our lives; promotions are based on it, favor with classmates or bosses. So how do we look at our “performance” as we come before God?
As we move closer to the cross, we think about how our salvation comes from the generosity of God.
We live in a world where it gets harder to trust fully. As we continue our way to the cross, we can place our full trust in our Good and Beautiful God
We all have narratives about who God is. This Lenten season, we will look at some of those narratives, practice some soul-training exercise to help us as we make our way to the cross and the empty tomb.
Sometimes it feels like life moves too fast. Maybe the next right step is to stop and take a breath and take your cares to Jesus.
We don’t like quiet, the lack of sound can mean there is nothing going on, but what if we needed silence to hear what God is doing?
Our first sermon in our "The Next Right Thing" series.Life can be complicated, sometimes it’s easy to just get paralyzed with all of the choices we must make. Over the next three weeks, we will look at just doing the next right thing to move forward in faith.
Pastor Chris shares a reminder of our mission and vision as we move forward into a new year.
The final sermon in our Got Questions? series. What are the gifts from God? and Where is God?
In part two of our series we look at the question, what do we do about the Law’s established in the O.T.
Pastor Chris begins 2019 answering questions you have asked Christmas Eve 2018! Today we look at if Pets are in Heaven and what does it mean to be made in the image of God.
The last verse of the hymn invites us to lift our voices in alleluia's to the one who is "King." This descriptor was more radical for the people of Jesus' time as it resisted the powers of empire that threatened "the least of these" that Jesus came to serve. We are reminded by this seemingly benign and sweet song that whenever there is injustice in this world, we are to look to the one whose power is love. How might this increase our hope for the future?
Rev. Dr. Marsha Middleton from the North Texas Conference is our guest preaching this morning.
The shepherds got quite a wake-up call that night when the sky lit up "like a Christmas tree" (so to speak). Awe at the transformative glory of what God can do in our lives is the focus this week. Glories are streaming every day if we only have eyes to see. How would our lives be renewed if we saw the world and our lives through the lens of wonder?
Today we begin the celebration of Advent. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the writing of Silent Night. These precious words have given comfort and peace for many who have sung these words, today as we begin our journey to the manger, these words help us find a sense of peace.
We conclude our series by looking at the story of Abraham taking Isaac up the mountain for the sacrifice. This is a confusing story, but in the end, we see a challenge of love, grace, and provision from God.
Abram becomes Abraham, this sets the course for the people of Israel and for us today. Through our relationship with God, we get a new name. How can we live in that covenant with God?
As we continue to look at the story of Abraham, we see that there are times we are like him. We want to protect ourselves instead of living in the promises God gives us.
Over the next four weeks, we will look at images from Abraham’s story in Genesis. This story is a journey, a journey we all face in our lives, remembering how God calls flawed people into faithfulness.
This Sunday we are going to talk about possibilities…. what can we do when we are given the resources to do ministry. We will look at the example of the Macedonian church as they cheerfully give to fulfill the mission of the young church.
In Matthew 4:17 Jesus announces that the Kingdom of God is here and available now. As stewards of what God has given us, we have the task to use our gifts from God to expand his kingdom here… now.
You have heard the phrase, “Membership has its privileges.” Sometimes we get stuck in the commercial mindset of church… what can the church do for me? How can I receive blessings from the church? But the truth of the matter is we are blessed when we give to others… and through the church that is with our presence, prayers, gifts, service, and witness
One of the most difficult parts of being in community is being real. Letting those around you know the real you. It’s easy to put up a mask and only let out the best you, but God wants all of you, not just the part you feel is best for the world to see.
As we continue to build each other up, there is a tendency to stay quiet and let everyone else do the talking. When that happens, the best part of the conversation is left out. YOU!
Pursuing God, knowing God, understanding God, these are tasks we as humans set out to understand. As we continue in our study of community, how can our work as a community allow us to understand God fully?
Pastor Chris begins the Community series with the message "Show Up." This week we are starting another round of Community Groups, our hope is that you grab a study, gather a group of friends, and then grow together in your relationship with Jesus Christ. Part of the battle is just showing up!
We like to be in control, to know what is going to happen next, but sometimes, our worry gets in the way of our living.
This is just a test to see if the RSS feed is talking to Libsyn. Join us for worship at either 8:30 or 11 am on Sunday morning.
Sometimes it is easy to live by the words, “If it’s going to be done right, I have to do it myself.” But what do we miss when that is our attitude about all of life?
Have you ever had that moment where you really wanted to please someone, but knew you couldn’t? When we become obsessed with what people think of us, we can easily forget what God thinks of us.
The first sermon in our "You Don't Have What It Takes" sermon series.Philippians 3:4-9aWe live in a world where performance is key. We do what we can to build our resumes. But what is it all for?
Rev. Dr. Owen Ross from the Center of Church Development brings us a message of hope from the tent city in Tornillo, Texas.
Tracy Everson brings this message for the 2018 Royse City First United Methodist Church Women's Retreat
Layperson David Chamberlain brings his last message to Royse City First United Methodist Church
As we prepare to go out into the community to work, Pastor Chris preaches on the importance of reaching out to the community.
Rev. Andrew Fiser the Associate Director of Missional Outreach and Director of Zip Code Connection preaches on this last word of Jesus on the Cross.
Pastor Chris brings this message after the incident in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017
District Superintendent Rev. Dr. Ron Henderson brings this message as the church votes on the Healthy Church Initiative prescriptions.
First United Methodist Church of Royse city just completed a Healthy Church Initiative Weekend. Our lead consultant Rev. Geroge Fisk gives us the reminder that Fishing = Following.
Giving all you can… It can only happen one way. First, it must be real, full of grace, and made for every good work. When we understand how our giving makes a difference, we then support our work in full.
Sometimes we think of saving as a way to stockpile stuff for the future. But what if we save ourselves in a way that keeps us from living up to God’s mission?
We have the best story to tell in the world. Part of stewardship is finding a way to share that story with others. The scriptures are full of opportunities to share the Love and Grace of Jesus Christ with others and we should do it joyfully.