http://allsaintsumc.org Open Hearts, Open Minds and Open Doors Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:22:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For All The Saints is a monthly newsletter of all that is happening at All Saints' United Methodist Church.  Select the month you want to view: July 2010 September 2010 http://allsaintsumc.org/index.php/2010/06/30/for-all-the-saints-news-letter/ Join us Sundays at 10:30  for weekly worship, and 9:30 for Adult Sunday School.  We worship at the Bier Creek Elementary School click here for directions. http://allsaintsumc.org/index.php/2010/06/29/summer-at-all-saints/ http://allsaintsumc.org/index.php/2010/03/04/by-faith-we-build-video/ He's a good man, my husband.  For the last three months or so, he has insisted every day that I eat the larger portion, and though I must exercise so as to be in full strength when the time comes, he also takes care that my work does not become ... http://allsaintsumc.org/index.php/2009/12/24/contemplations/ I have a friend who is a psychiatrist.  He was studying to practice psychiatry in the Medical school at Duke while I was studying to be a pastor in the Divinity School.  We’ve kept up over the years, and we still get together every now and then to catch up ... http://allsaintsumc.org/index.php/2009/12/12/angels-among-us/ Christmas always was her favorite time of year.  There was especially something about the Christmas Eve candlelight service that rekindled her sense of life and faith and love like nothing else in the year.  She looked forward to it every Christmas, gathering late at night, in the cold, with family ... http://allsaintsumc.org/index.php/2009/12/12/good-news/ (Christ the King Sunday) What is truth?  Well, who can say?  There are so many claims, so many ways to see things, so many good people who see things in different ways, it’s hard to pin down truth. And we’re wary of anyone who claims to have a hold on truth. Ours is ... http://allsaintsumc.org/index.php/2009/12/12/all-in-the-family-part-3/ (On The Occasion of the baptism of Christopher Isaac Moore) {Those of you who are regular worshipers here at All Saints’ have never seen me preach from behind the pulpit.  You know that as your pastor, I prefer to preach out there, close to you, with nothing separating me from you.  ... http://allsaintsumc.org/index.php/2009/12/12/all-in-the-family-part-2/ [I invite you to take out a pen, and jot some notes down during the sermon.  I trust that God will speak something to you during the sermon, and I’d love for you to jot that down, take it home and pray through it this week.] Believe it or not, the ... http://allsaintsumc.org/index.php/2009/12/12/all-in-the-family-1/ [caption id="attachment_159" align="alignnone" width="344" caption="This icon of Mary is based on a traditional Byzantine icon of the Madonna and child, but made with cut-out Christmas ads. That's the Gospel at work, taking the profane and commercial and materialistic, and turning it to something holy."][/caption] http://allsaintsumc.org/index.php/2009/12/08/christ-among-the-consumers/