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Growing In Grace: August 2013
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Sunday, August 11, 2013. Tips For Sharing Your Faith- Glorify, Testify and Apply. One of the more difficult aspects to following Christ for many is actually sharing our faith story. Whether it's a cultural thing here in the US or the inability of the modern church to actually train people to share their faith, it's a thing. So, here are a few easy tips to sharing your faith and pointing people to Christ. 2- Actually invite people to share their story with you. It can be as simple as-. 6- Speak well of yo...
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Growing In Grace: General Conference 2012- Final Thoughts- Disheartened, but Hopeful
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012. General Conference 2012- Final Thoughts- Disheartened, but Hopeful. It came. It went. Little changed. With 8 million dollars spent on a global gathering of United Methodists, some interesting stuff happened. The worship services and preaching were excellent. The United Methodist Church is a global church. We are growing in Africa, so much that resources are scarce. It might be the best investment the UMC can make, and yet, I feel we did not do enough. Set Aside Bishop- did not pass.
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Growing In Grace: General Conference 2012: Wesley Covenant and Guaranteed Appointments
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012. General Conference 2012: Wesley Covenant and Guaranteed Appointments. With the many changes, discussions and legislation passed this General Conference 2012, I am reminded of the relevance of Wesley's prayer. I am no longer my own, but thine. Put me to what thou wilt, rank me with whom thou wilt. Put me to doing, put me to suffering. Let me be employed for thee or laid aside for thee,. Exalted for thee or brought low for thee. Let me be full, let me be empty. Emphasis above is mine.
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Growing In Grace: Tips For Sharing Your Faith- Glorify, Testify and Apply
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Sunday, August 11, 2013. Tips For Sharing Your Faith- Glorify, Testify and Apply. One of the more difficult aspects to following Christ for many is actually sharing our faith story. Whether it's a cultural thing here in the US or the inability of the modern church to actually train people to share their faith, it's a thing. So, here are a few easy tips to sharing your faith and pointing people to Christ. 2- Actually invite people to share their story with you. It can be as simple as-. 6- Speak well of yo...
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Growing In Grace: Reflections from Bishop's Week 2013- Learned or Learning
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Monday, July 8, 2013. Reflections from Bishop's Week 2013- Learned or Learning. In one of Bishop's Schnase's talks, he shared about Wesley and the Early Methodists. He said:. Wesley and the Early Methodists. Outward Focused and Future Oriented. They were also not afraid to push back against a system of learned scholars and challenge many long held assumptions about church, religion, faith, community and evangelism. Go in peace and go with God. Posted by Jeremy V. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A rec...
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Growing In Grace: Shrove Tuesday- Fat Tuesday?
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013. Shrove Tuesday- Fat Tuesday? What is Shrove Tuesday? I thought it was Fat Tuesday? It's the day before Ash Wednesday, which begins our 46/40 day journey to Easter. Our District Superintendent Reverend Cody Collier shared this recently. Shrove Tuesday (as in "to shrive," to absolve or do penance) marks the last hurrah before Lent begins. It's the same concept as the festivals of Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) or Carnival (farewell to the flesh,. Here are a few ideas. Lent is a great ...
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Growing In Grace: Reflections on Bishop's Week 2013- From Pipeline to Ecosystem
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Monday, June 24, 2013. Reflections on Bishop's Week 2013- From Pipeline to Ecosystem. The Missouri attendees included our Bishop, Cabinet and Extended Cabinet, Conference Lay Leader, Chair of BOOM, two younger members of BOOM, our Director of Hispanic Ministries, a few others and me (Chair of Conference Nominations). In 1988 Yellowstone National Park suffered a devastating fire that destroyed nearly 1/3 of the Park. In 1996 Yellowstone was suffering in many ways. In both cases, the Park Rangers believed ...
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Growing In Grace: Learnings From Bishop's Week 2013- Endangered Species- Young Clergy and Barbers?
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Monday, July 15, 2013. Learnings From Bishop's Week 2013- Endangered Species- Young Clergy and Barbers? I've heard a few similar statements about seminary. "No one wants to go to seminary anymore. It's just too expensive, too long and does not train clergy to lead the church.". But it seems that younger clergy might be an endangered species, as are young barbers. Bishop Schnase said to us, "I can't send you someone you didn't send me first." Too true. 3 Develop opportunities for clergy of all ages to int...
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Growing In Grace: A Story of Grace by Jeremy Vickers
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Thursday, October 11, 2012. A Story of Grace by Jeremy Vickers. This past month, I published an ebook exclusively through Apple's Ibooks. It can be downloaded on either the IPad 2 or IPad 3. Why only there? After a short three week quality assurance process, Ibooks published it directly to their website. If you would like to take a look at the new book, here is the press release and a link to the book on Itunes. A Story of Grace by Jeremy Vickers. Here is the link. Posted by Jeremy V. This blog is my att...
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Growing In Grace: New Year's and Second Chances
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013. New Year's and Second Chances. New Year's usually causes us to look back and look forward. Looking back it was a year with ups and downs, hopefully more ups. A few things happened this past year in the life of Grace that you might be interested in hearing. We finished construction and opened our brand new sanctuary. Published our first Enhanced E book called "A Story of Grace". We were featured in the Kansas City Star for our LEED Certification. Record Christmas Eve Crowd.
