From Worship Experiences

Making Music at Christmas

This Christmas, I had several opportunities for making music.  Music allows me to worship God more than any other medium.  I worship when I sing and when I listen to music. The Lewis Center United Methodist Church Choir presented a cantata this year.  Cantatas are a beautiful way of making music.  They also seem to …

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Alpha Recovery Sunday at Lewis Center

A couple of weeks ago was Alpha Recovery Sunday at Lewis Center United Methodist Church.  Alpha Recovery is a 12 step faith-based program centered in Bucyrus.  It reaches out primarily to women who have been incarcerated because of drug addictions.  Lewis Center hosts meetings that expand the program’s focus to anyone dealing with addiction.  Men …

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God Is Not Our Vending Machine

Yesterday in her sermon, Rev. Jessica Cavinee, the lead pastor at Lewis Center United Methodist Church said “God is not our vending machine.”  It was a throw-away line.  Not one of the central points of her sermon, which was about stewardship.  But I really liked the line and have been thinking about it ever since. …

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Stay in Your Lane

Every morning when we drive to work, we pass through the Cumberland Gap Tunnel.  Emblazoned on signs overhead are the words “Stay in Your Lane!”  They don’t want you changing lanes through the tunnel for safety reasons. It is an interesting message for our lives as well.  Stay in your lane.  There are times when …

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Persistent Prayer and the Big No

I am a big believer in persistent prayer.  I believe that prayer changes things, sometimes even changing God’s mind about something.  Through prayer we can move mountains.  Prayer changes the person who prays and the person who is being prayed for. In his teachings, Jesus tells us time and again that we should keep praying.  …

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