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You may have seen my church, the United Methodist Church, in the news this week. Unfortunately, the headlines have not been “United Methodist Church Makes Great Strides to Eliminate Poverty.” Nor have the headlines been, “United Methodist Church Leads the World Promoting the Welfare of Children.” If only. No instead, to my embarrassment, the headlines…

God has blessed each us with gifts and talents. We are called to develop those talents and use them to serve the world. Yet, many people don’t ever fully develop their gifts. They never reach their full potential. And typically, it isn’t due to being lazy. Rather, it is due to their holding self-defeating beliefs. We…

Recently, I spoke with a friend whose teenage daughter is struggling. When a therapist asked her daughter to name some of her own best qualities, her daughter couldn’t think of one. Hearing this pained me. My friend’s daughter is kind, beautiful, smart, athletic and artistically gifted. She absolutely has it all. Yet when this young lady…

It is easy to love other people when they are like us. It is easy to love people who agree with us politically, who have the same values as we do, and who have the same interests. Basically, it is easy to love people who we like. But Jesus doesn’t call us to merely love…
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