Plan now to attend this year’s Fountain Valley Prayer Summit, May 25-27. Each of the three nights, churches in Fountain Valley will gather to pray, worship, and listen to God’s voice for our community. The three nights will be hosted by three different churches. On Thursday, May 25th, Living Waters...
May: The Way to Global Methodism By Keith Boyette Through Isaiah, God declares, “O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen on your walls; they will pray day and night, continually. Take no rest, all you who pray to the Lord. Give the Lord no rest until he completes his work...
By Terry Teykl John Wesley said, “God will do nothing but in answer to prayer. Whether we think of, or speak to God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him. Proceed...
Last week I shared an insightful article by Steven Barr from the Fresh Expressions website. You can read the whole article here: Five Lessons Learned From a Church Embedded in The Walt Disney Company – Fresh Expressions. It is about lessons learned from planting a church within the Walt Disney...
By David F. Watson The way to glory is the way of the cross. “Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,” Paul writes (Phil 2:5). The mind of Christ is the pattern for the Christian life. Paul then tells us what this pattern entails...
January: The Way to Spiritual Unity By Carolyn Moore “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also...
December: The Way of Faith By Leah Hidde-Gregory This week, I went in to get my nails done. A thirty-year indulgence that my husband doesn’t quite understand. My nail tech, Carrie, explained to me that she could not do my nails next time, because she was headed back to Vietnam to see...
November: The Way to Christian Perfection By Kevin M. Watson John Wesley could remember a time before Methodism existed. He witnessed the beginnings of the Methodist movement, where the Holy Spirit moved in powerful, surprising, and at times, even indescribable ways. If at the end of his life, John...
September: The Way to Revelation 7:9 By Maxie Dunnam The big issue in life is to settle what really matters. We have struggled with that for a long time in the United Methodist Church. It is with sadness, and through deep and abiding prayer, expansive conversation, we have concluded...