First United Methodist Church - DeRidder, LA

The first of two consecutive Sundays in the first chapter of Mark's gospel calls us to the reality that if we are truly serious about following Christ, many things in our lives will change...and this change comes about because our motives behind our actions are transformed as our souls are awakened to the presence and power of God's grace at work within us by love of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.

The first of two consecutive Sundays in the first chapter of Mark's gospel calls us to the reality that if we are truly serious about following Christ, many things in our lives will change...and this change comes about because our motives behind our actions are transformed as our souls are awakened to the presence and power of God's grace at work within us by love of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.

In the second of our "Be it Therefore Resolved..." New Year's worship series, we find in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians the sometimes uncomfortable yet absolutely essential reality that as ones who have been given, by grace alone, God's eternal and relentless love through salvation by faith we have responsibilities that transcend our personal felt needs and wants.

In the second of our "Be it Therefore Resolved..." New Year's worship series, we find in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians the sometimes uncomfortable yet absolutely essential reality that as ones who have been given, by grace alone, God's eternal and relentless love through salvation by faith we have responsibilities that transcend our personal felt needs and wants.

In the first of our New Year's worship series - Be it Therefore Resolved: Beliefs and Truths that Can Transform Your Life in the New Year - we explore Ephesians 3:1-12 and discover that through Christ's life, death, and resurrection, ALL are invited and welcomed to share in God's creative and redemptive story, no matter where we have been or what may have been in our past!

In the first of our New Year's worship series - Be it Therefore Resolved: Beliefs and Truths that Can Transform Your Life in the New Year - we explore Ephesians 3:1-12 and discover that through Christ's life, death, and resurrection, ALL are invited and welcomed to share in God's creative and redemptive story, no matter where we have been or what may have been in our past!

Christmas Eve - the culmination of the Advent journey! We finish our "Why?" series by addressing the most fundamental question of all - "Why Him?" Why the one born in the most unlikely of circumstances to the most unlikely of people? Why would God go about saving the world in THIS way???

One of the great challenges for the faithful when Christmas Eve falls on a Sunday is the natural inclination to look at the morning and evening as the same day - but yet in order to get to Christmas Eve/Day we must journey through the Fourth Sunday of Advent, on which we light the candle of Love. A few verses from later in the first chapter of Luke's gospel illumine for us the great gift of Love that is incarnate in the Messiah.

One of the great challenges for the faithful when Christmas Eve falls on a Sunday is the natural inclination to look at the morning and evening as the same day - but yet in order to get to Christmas Eve/Day we must journey through the Fourth Sunday of Advent, on which we light the candle of Love. A few verses from later in the first chapter of Luke's gospel illumine for us the great gift of Love that is incarnate in the Messiah.

Christmas Eve - the culmination of the Advent journey! We finish our "Why?" series by addressing the most fundamental question of all - "Why Him?" Why the one born in the most unlikely of circumstances to the most unlikely of people? Why would God go about saving the world in THIS way???