Good news! Last Sunday during worship, I announced that a family of eight will be coming to live in The Inn at St. Paul on October 17th. The octet will be traveling to the United States following a nine-year stay in a refugee camp in Ethiopia. Due to a deteriorating political climate, the family was forced to flee their home country of Eritrea.

No, but Jesus did give us a three-step process for resolving conflict as Christians.

[Titus 1:5, 10-13, CEB]

 

In 2006, I received a phone call. The voice on the other end of the line informed me that I was being appointed to Brice United Methodist Church. After a moment of silence, I replied, “You want me to do what? You’re sending me where?”

In Sunday’s sermon, Pastor David quoted Helen Wodehouse, “So often, we think that the promise of God is, ‘At the end of the way you may find me.’ Not so. For God says, ‘I am the Way; I am the road under your feet, the road that begins just as low down as you happen to be. If you find yourself in a hole, the Way begins in the hole.” Listen to it again.

 

When someone offers “brutal honesty” in a way that disparages or demeans you…