Calling all Youth Students, come to Norton Park UMC on May 4th, dressed as your favorite Star Wars character for our celebration of the confirmands and welcoming them into the youth group galaxy! The party has been planned by the current youth group members with fun, food, and games. You don’t have to come dressed …
Easter Sunday we welcomed our newest members of Hillside UMC when three of our youth were confirmed in the faith!
This Friday we will hold a Good Friday service in the sanctuary at Noon. Join us for this moving and somber service as we remember Jesus’ sacrifice for us.
“I love, too, the deliverance this helplessness brings. In another psalm that emphasizes helplessness, Psalm 25, David wrestles with shame, that vicious hold that others can put upon us. Notice always the difference between guilt, which is largely an internal matter between us and our own souls, and shame, which is inflicted from the outside …
“Just as we never learn except as we admit ignorance, there are places in prayer that we cannot experience except from the posture of helplessness. At such times of consummate need we learn things not only about the person extending friendship, but also about our own person. We probably know very little about ourselves until …
“Repentance is crucial not only for our relationship with another; it is an equally crucial quality in a person’s relationship with his or her own soul. Dean W. R. Inge, a theologian who was also a pungent observer of the human scene, once said, “Prayer gives a [person] the opportunity of getting to know a …
“I am sometimes uncomfortable when I hear the psalmist speaking so assuredly of his own merit. Some would reply that I was probably raised on a good deal of self-condemnation. Perhaps, though I doubt that it was excessive. Then, too, it may be that the psalmists were, in the particular instances of self-appraisal, being necessarily …
“Now and again the psalmists pray for judgment on their enemies, but sometimes they catch themselves in the process and examine their own souls, lest their cry for divine vengeance get completely out of hand. In Psalm 139, the writer has just asked God to send judgment on his enemies; but without pausing for a …
“Most of us have heard someone say regretfully of a friendship, “I never heard him say he was sorry.” Even the most earnest friendship or the most ecstatic marriage needs these two words, because even though one may not have caused hurt intentionally, all of us in our humanness sometimes speak an unfortunate word or …
Longing to Pray – Day 24 “It isn’t far from the place of wonder to the place of witness. If we believe deeply in someone, we can hardly refrain from testifying to the beauty we find in him or her. Without a doubt, the favorite psalm is Psalm 23… and this is a psalm of …