Welcome to week 1 of our new sermon series, Good Trouble! Here are the slides shared during the sermon. These aren’t visible to our online participants due to deficiencies in our camera technology. So we’re experimenting with offering them here on our blog. Leave a comment to let us know how much (or how little) […]
Sermon slides for Feb. 9–Homegrown Resistance Read More »
In my Feb. 2 sermon, I read a couple lines of the poem, “Perhaps the World Ends Here” by Joy Hario. These are the opening lines of the poem that I shared in the sermon: The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.The gifts of earth are brought
What was that poem? Read More »
The sermon slide post experiment continues! As I wrote here last week, these sermon slide posts are mostly designed for those participating in our worship experience online and thus cannot see the slides we show to enhance the message. Today’s text is from chapter 4 of the Gospel According to Luke. As we read this
Sermon slides for February 2: Busting boundaries Read More »
Dear Minooka UMC Found Family,85 years ago, Thomas Wolfe famously wrote, “You can’t go home again.” Something like 1850 years ago, the author of the Gospel According to Luke even more famously wrote, “No prophet is accepted in his hometown.” Have you found that to be true? At the risk of arguing with two literary
As promised! A post mostly designed for those participating in our worship experience online and thus cannot see the slides we show to enhance the message. Today’s text is from Luke 4. Jesus and this other figure are like wizards shooting spells at each other. They’re like two Jedi in a light saber battle. They’re
Sermon slides for January 26, 2025–Temptation & Power Read More »
The problem? People participating in our worship experiences cannot see any slides I share during the message. The solution? Well, the best solution is purchase and install new video equipment that can capture more of the sanctuary. But unless and until a generous donor steps up to make that happen—Is that person you? It could
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Dear Found Family of Minooka UMC, Our congregation is extraordinarily blessed by the sheer number of dedicated and talented people who give so much of their time and effort. We have a wonderful set of leaders for all our committees, teams, and small groups. We have a wonderful set of hard working people filling those
Why are we here? What do we do? Read More »
Dear Found Family of Minooka UMC, Here we are already 11 days into 2025 — how are those New Year’s resolutions going? Some research suggests almost a quarter (23%) of those who set resolutions quit in the first week(!). So if yours is still going, great job! Whatever that resolution is, I hope it is
The most important resolution realization Read More »
I won’t go into the whole routine regarding United Methodist polity, but a very condensed version is: our congregation is connected to about 360 other congregations in our state in what is called the Northern Illinois Annual Conference. Bishop Dan Schwerin is our Conference’s episcopal leader. Earlier this week he sent this letter to us:
A letter to us from our Bishop Dan Schwerin Read More »
Happy New Year! Look around…Do you notice pipers pipping? Or ladies dancing? Or lords a-leaping? Or perhaps even drummers drumming? No? You sure? For we are now at the end of the 12 days of Christmas. What your true love gives you on each of the final four days seems to change with each song
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Christmas Eve at Minooka UMC
Wednesday, Dec. 24
4:00PM featuring Pop-up Pageant
9:00PM featuring Communion
