Peakland UMC

From Linwood:

I found myself humming the hymn Jesus Is All The World To Me. I had been thinking about what to record for today’s devotional and that hymn floated to the surface. It’s been a quiet morning and so peace drifted to my soul.

This medley recognizes that inner peace. The songs are Jesus Is All The World To Me, My Jesus I Love Thee, Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus and then returning to Jesus Is All The World To Me.

From Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg, Va.

From Pastor Joe:

Friends, fair warning here. In our Gospel passage this morning Jesus sounds like he’s facing the day without his morning coffee. Our Prince of Peace sounds angry and frustrated with the world around him as he talks about division and our inability to interpret the present time. In the sermon we’ll look at how we today interpret Jesus words and discover the challenge he has for us to live in unity when we are feeling divided.

I’m sitting here at the church and each Sunday all sorts of folks gather here in this room to worship God and to listen to the words of Jesus. All sorts of people come here to worship. Mommies, Daddies, grandparents, friends, older people, younger people tall people and small people.

In today’s Bible story we’ll hear about a man named Zacchaeus who was too little to see Jesus.

Cats, with Harriett Darst PODCAST EDITION by Peakland UMC

From Pastor Joe: Last week, I started answering some questions about myself and asked you to send me your questions. I’ve got two today.

1. What is your favorite thing to cook, not necessarily eat but to cook.

2. I was asked What is my feeling/position on marriage between members of the LGBTQ community?

From Pastor Dave: Over the past few weeks, I have been reading some of Charles Wesley’s Hymns and Poems on select passages of Holy Scripture. The collection includes over 2,300 short poems which were first published in 1762, and hundred’s more published either in Hymns and Sacred Poems or only discovered after Charles’ death. . .

From Pastor Joe: This past week, Peakland hosted Vacation Bible School: The Knights of North Castle. Our banner verse for the week was Be Strong in the Lord, in the strength of God’s power which comes from Ephesians 6, verse 10.

From Linwood: If you watch our online Sunday service, you will recognize this arrangement of both of the Doxologies we use in our church services as part of our response to how we have been blessed by giving our offerings.

The words are magnificent and the organ is the only single instrument I can think of that can adequately express the wonder and power of these two Doxologies. They are both titled “Praise God To Whom All Blessings Flow, but set to different melodies and with some different wordings. Please allow me toe read these to you before I play my arrangement.

. . . from Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg, Va. What makes you afraid? What fills you with fear? Climate change, economic instability, someone somewhere doing something you don’t approve of? Does that make you afraid?

Well fear not, Jesus has some words for us, lifesaving, life changing words for us in our scripture today.

From Pastor Joe: I have a story that I want to read to you. It’s not a story in the Bible but it is one you may know. I read this story to my sons when they were very small. It’s called the Runaway bunny written by Margaret Wise Brown and pictures drawn by Clement Hurd. I want to read parts of it to you.