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FUMC dressed for Christmas complete with snow.
To God be the Glory
Winter Beauty, courtesy of our Lord; and photo credit to Rev. Ray.
Resurrection Cross 2015
Ready for Advent - First Sunday
Ready for the Advent - Second Sunday
Third Sunday of Advent
Our beautiful Sanctuary - Ordinary Days
A Light Unto the World
I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind......
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,
On the glorious splendor of Your majesty And on Your wonderful works, I will meditate.
The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.
Pat & Ray
Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying,"I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life."
God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.
Summer is Beautiful at FUMC
The Covered Bridge in our beautiful city.
“Let the redeemed of the LORD tell their story...” Psalm 107: 2
Do you ever just notice something that has always been there, but you had paid no attention? I once heard a man thanking whoever had put the beautiful flowers in the Church. Then his wife told him that they were artificial, and that they had been in the church over a year.
I sometimes think of the lame man outside the beautiful gate in Acts 3. He had been coming there and begging a long time. Suddenly Peter and John stop and reach down to lift him up as they gave him the greatest gift in the world: they offered him Christ. Why had they not done this before; why did they notice him that day? Acts 2 gives us the reason: The Holy Spirit had come into their lives and changed their focus.
This week I have noticed how the redeemed of the Lord are speaking up. This is not a new thing, they have been doing so all along, but I fear I have been focusing on busy things. Make a habit of that and you stop seeing the beautiful.
The young man who bagged our groceries wished us a blessed day. The Doctor that I saw spoke of how truly blessed she was. A lady at the market said her husband had lost his job; but she acknowledged her Savior who would get them through. A lady who cannot speak made a heart with her fingers to tell me that she loved Jesus. These are only a few ways that people are expressing and living their everyday faith.
I have a choice: I can look for the negative and it will gather about me like flies at a picnic; and I risk the danger of becoming a grumpy old man. If I look for what is good and true; it will be as the hymn says, “God and the beautiful will dwell in you.”
“Holy Spirit,” open our eyes that we might see visions of truth. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so; then we will hear what great things the Lord is doing. Forgive our tendency to focus on thorns instead of beauty. When you bless us, let us also humbly boast in the Lord because someone else may need you too. Cleanse the lens of our eyes of faith; and help us to refocus on the right until the wrong is vanished into the sea of no more. Remind us that you created a world that is good, and that you so loved the world that you gave Heaven’s best to save it. Let me not only see the beauty of life all around me; Dear Lord, grant that I might add a little goodness to it. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”
Grace and Peace, Rev Ray
Elizabethton, Tennessee 37643
- Worship Service– 9:55 AM
- Sunday School– 11:20 AM
- 4:12 Youth Ministries Jr. High - Grades 6 thru 8– 4:10 PM to 5:30 PM
- 4:12 Youth Ministries Sr. High - Grades 9 thru 12– 5:45 PM to 7:30 PM
- Bible Study– 6:00 PM
- Coolagers (grades K - 5th)– 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Life Lessons in the Fellowship Hall– 6:00 PM
- Chancel Choir Practice– 7:00 PM
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