Read Together UMCNA

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Read Together UMCNA episodes

July 30, 2019 Read Together UMCNA Week 31
Rev. Steve West walks us through a few chapters of Jeremiah, focusing on the use of images as sacred metaphors.
24 min
July 24, 2019 Read Together UMCNA Week 30
Echoes of God resound through the ages, and they come back again and again. Bob Bentley has something both simple and profound to ask: Do you hear? Are you listening?
11 min
July 16, 2019 Read Together UMCNA Week 29
Can you recall a time when you were separated from what is comfortable and familiar? Using our readings from Isaiah this week, Rev. Emily Freeman Penfield reminds us that even when we're adrift in a sea of loneliness or doubt, we can never be completely lost. We belong to the God who created us.
13 min
July 11, 2019 Read Together UMCNA Week 28
What do you do when you hear the worst possible news? Rev. Becky Scott recalls how, when your heart is heavy with grief and your own prayers just won't come, you sometimes have to count on the prayers of others.
11 min
July 08, 2019 Read Together UMCNA Week 27
Rev. Henry Gibson has some questions for us to consider as we read Isaiah together. Are you ready to discern your part in creating a more peaceful existence?
9 min
June 29, 2019 Read Together UMCNA Week 26
What are we to make of the love conversations we find in Song of Solomon? Why is this book in the Bible? Rev. Amy Parsons Vaughn helps us understand the allegory it offers regarding how we love one another and how God loves us.
9 min
June 19, 2019 Read Together UMCNA Week 25
Reverend Zach Langer, in pondering the story of Job, discerns that we must go beyond looking for reasons bad things happen to good people, and acknowledge that maybe it is in difficulty that we are most able to see the grace of God in its true abundance.
12 min
June 11, 2019 Read Together UMCNA Week 24
Of the many lessons we can learn from the book of Job, Rev. Andy Curtis focuses on this: we are not called to defend God, rather we are called to grow in our love for God and others.
11 min
June 06, 2019 Read Together UMCNA Week 23
Are you ready to look around your own hometown and look for the things that break your heart? This is the lesson Marian Royston shares from Nehemiah's story in this week's podcast.
8 min
May 30, 2019 Read Together UMCNA Week 22
Commitment. Dedication. Perseverance. According to Terry McElheny, the same qualities that apply to a successful Olympic athlete make for a successful disciple of Jesus Christ. How's your race going?
11 min