Yesterday, during worship, I called on The Fount family to fast and pray as we make our exodus journey. Prayer is essential, and fasting helps to accentuate our prayers and deepen our experience of God’s presence. As a congregation that believes in prayer, we need to practice prayer consistently and...
By David Thomas When all the dust has settled, it’s hard to predict all the details of what form our new connection will take. But this we know for certain: what our moment requires is not just a better Methodism. Long ago we left behind the times when denominational improvements...
By David Watson It’s common today to hear people talk about the “secular West.” “Secular,” however, may not be the best term to describe our culture. We in the West tend to be religious people, though less frequently Christian than has been the case in the past. Apart from the...
June: The Way to Wisdom By Dr. Stephen Seamands “Select from among yourselves seven men of good standing, full of the Spirit and of wisdom” (Acts 6.3 italics mine). Faced with growing dissension within their ranks, that was the Apostles solution for the growing food distribution problem in the Jerusalem church....
FV Churches: Prayer Summit Schedule Thursday Schedule (5/19) 2:00pm: Afternoon Session (Prayer Tent) Worship Irene Ruth- Spiritual Warfare through Prayer 4:00pm: Prayer Time (Specific Locations in FV, or in the Sanctuary with music and prayer points) 5:00pm: Refreshments (Coffee Bar) 6pm-8pm: Evening Session (The Sanctuary) Pastor Bumble Ho: Discussion (MORE...
Pastor Glen will be speaking at the Saturday morning session (10:00 AM)! Come and join with your Christian neighbors to seek the Lord for the city and to be blessed and empowered! For more information, contact Coastal Community Fellowship at (714) 963-9708.
May: The Way to Holy Love By Kevin M. Watson In his scholarship, Kenneth J. Collins has summarized John Wesley’s theology as “holy love.” This is seen with particular clarity in his book The Theology of John Wesley: Holy Love and the Shape of Grace (Abingdon, 2007). A cursory reading...
Continuing in our prayer, in unison with the Wesleyan Covenant Association world-wide, here is the April Prayer Guide. April: The Way of Peace By Kimberly D. Reisman Our world is not a peaceful place. On the contrary, it is filled with danger and strife, violence and pain. Jesus understood...
As 2022 moves on, be praying for the Commission on General Conference, that they will decide to go ahead with General Conference this summer, as planned, and that it won’t be postponed yet again! As a way to be praying, we are sharing the Wesleyan Covenant Association’s Prayer Guide each...
We are all aware of the military invasion of The Ukraine by forces of the Russian Federation. But are you aware that the United Methodist Church has churches both in Ukraine and Russia? Let us be in prayer for the people most affected by this invasion: the innocent people, including...