If you’ve been with us for a while, you know that we’re closing in on the end of our late-summer worship series called ‘Christian’. One more message next week and we’ll finish up this series. But today’s message, if you haven’t caught it in your bulletin, is entitled ‘Loopholes’. And it’s titled ‘Loopholes’ because I thought we should talk about ‘loopholes’ today. You know what a loophole is, don’t you? It’s a way of getting around a rule or a law so that you can get what you want. And...
Folks, as we begin today, ask yourself this question: What does the Bible mean to me? What difference does the Word of God make in my life? As was mentioned in the ‘Intro to Worship’ today, my Jewish brother from Jerusalem always says of Israel, “We are a people of God’s Word. If we’re not, we have no business being here.” We feel the same here at the Dodgeville United Methodist Church. If we are not a people of God’s Word, we have no business being here … because that...
The summer that Jane and I met, we were both on staff at Asbury Acres United Methodist Church Camp, Almond, Wisconsin. When we could, we attended church on Sunday mornings as a staff that summer. That was the summer that I learned what kind of a pastor I never wanted to be… Oh, I stayed involved in the church even that summer—as a guest. I and others from the staff would do special music and help out where we could. The pastor, however, seemed to spend most of his...
