Behold: The Israelite people, caught in between imprisonment and promise. They were freed people, but they weren’t without fear. There was a deep need: They were without water in a dry place and they...

It’s no revelation, really: Looking different will invariably attract different looks. What’s true in the physical realm is also true for someone who is spiritually attractive. There is something about their outer movement that...

All of us have hungers(healthy and unhealthy, but we have to be careful about what we do to help those hungers. What’s true in the physical is also true of the spiritual. On this...

We’re a different people. We’re a diverse people—from all ages of life, stages of life, wages of life and walks of life. And yet, despite our differences, we all congregate to places like these...

In the throes of disappointment, dejection, letdown or loss, many of us have considered the question: “Do I count?” Does my life matter? Does what I do on a daily basis make any difference...

Of all descriptions Jesus could dig up for anyone who would be his disciple, he decides on two: Salt and light. Why these? Why us…and so what? Join Rev. Jake Steele and CUMC as...

Our faith as followers of Jesus teaches us many things—not the least of which is that there is so much more than what we see in the immediate; we’re not victims of circumstance and...

In order to gain some things in the life, you have to be willing to shed some things in life. In fact, the extent to which some things become a reality really depends on...

There are a lot of ideas or assumptions built into baptism—some of which we’ve birthed on our own; others we’ve brought with us from childhood. What’s it all mean? Is it some mechanism for...