The Desert Evil
by Aaron Farnham
It is August of 2004, I am just arriving at Asbury College after about 6 months with UMVIM in Honduras. As a transfer student from a public community college in Upstate New York being in Kentucky at a Wesleyan Holiness school is a shock, culturally and to my faith.
I am on … Read the rest
Oconee Street UMC Online Service
March 14, 2021 • Fourth Sunday of Lent
Full Service Stream
Welcome
Prelude: “Lost”
Discussing “Mercy”
Call to Confession
Opening Hymn: “Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy”
Feeling Like Habakkuk
by Emily Beckwith
Habakkuk 1:2-4 and 3:17-19:
2 O Lord, how long shall I cry for help,
and you will not listen?
Or cry to you “Violence!”
and you will not save?
3 Why do you make me see wrongdoing
and look at trouble?
Destruction and violence are before me;
strife and contention arise.
4 So the … Read the rest
“Being a Better Sower”
by Adrienne Bumpers
Mark 4: 3-9 (Parable of the Sower)
“Listen! a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up quickly, since it had … Read the rest
Oconee Street UMC Online Service
February 28, 2021 • Second Sunday of Lent
Full Service Stream
Welcome
Prelude: “Uncertainty”
Defining Righteousness
Call to Confession
Opening Hymn: “The God of Abraham Praise”
Things 2020 taught me
by Amber and Sarah Sumners
Isaiah 54:13
All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the prosperity of your children.
Things 2020 taught me:
“Tai Chi”
by Sean Beckwith
Psalm 46:10-11 (NRSV)
“Be still, and know that I am God!
I am exalted among the nations,
I am exalted in the earth.
The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge.”
I love a good “dad joke”, so forgive me when I say that during this Lenten season of FASTing, I’m … Read the rest
“I asked God to find me”
by Joe Dennis
Deuteronomy 1:31
“There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”
Footprints (author undetermined)
An elderly man, who had lived his life and left this world to go and meet his Maker asked the … Read the rest
Oconee Street UMC Online Service
February 7, 2021
Full Service Stream
Welcome
Prelude: “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”
Invocation
Opening Hymn: “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise”
Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 9:16-23
Sermon: “Relcaiming Apostleship”… Read the rest
by Gabbi Pohlman
Matthew 2:11-14
An angel of the Lord suddenly appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying “Get up! Take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to search for the child to destroy Him.” So he got up, took the child and His mother during the … Read the rest