This is the fourth Sunday of Lent as we continue to discover what Hungering for Hope can mean. It’s also the World Day of Prayer and this service was prepared by the World Day of Prayer Committee of Palestine.
In this, the third in our Lent series, speaker Tim Schmucker examines the part that grief and trauma undoubtedly played in the actions and responses of many of the familiar characters of the Bible- both the “good guys” and the “bad guys,” and invited us to consider with more compassion their responses to the circumstances into which they found themselves.
In this, the second week of Lent Peter Haresnape reflects on what it means to truly follow Jesus with all its wonder and pain.
This is the first Sunday of Lent, a time for us to reflect and pray. Our theme this year is Hungering for Hope, and we at TUMC will be talking about climate issues and how we can prayerfully address them.
This Sunday in ‘Character References,’ Haven Klassen looks at the strange and complicated story of Balaam and his talking donkey. Why is that story in the Bible and is there anything we can learn from it?
This Sunday in ‘Character References,’ Michele Rizoli looks at the complicated story of Leah and Rachel, as well as their servants Bilhah and Zilpah, another story of jealousy, envy and sibling relations.
In this “Character Reference” we examine the familiar story of David and Goliath, the plucky boy shepherd who felled a might warrior armed only with a slingshot. But is there more to the story than what we learned in Sunday School.
The third in our series Character References. This time Lori Unger examines Esther- the brave queen who saved her people from slaughter. Whether or not she was a real person ion history doesn’t diminish from the lessons we can learn from her story.
In this second of the series Character References, Michele Rizoli looks at the story of Jacob and Esau, twin brothers who feuded, one brother tricked the other out of his birthright and harsh words were uttered leading to a long term estrangement. But eventually the two brother reconciled. Or did they? What does forgiveness look like when there’s been great trauma?
In this, the first of our new series that focuses on characters of the Bible, we look at Job, the man from the Hebrew bible who suffered greatly.