Fear can paralyze us and turn us into people we don't particularly like. Fear will even cause us to lose faith sometimes. What did Jesus have to say about fear?

We use keys primarily to lock and unlock doors. What might it mean for Jesus to give Peter the keys to this new thing God is doing in the world and this new community that God is creating?

Every Sunday in October we will be exploring God's generosity to us and our responses to God. I know, the story of the angel's announcement to Mary that she will have a child belongs in Advent . . . or does it?

We here at West End UMC are called to be the loving light of Christ wherever we go. St. Paul in his letter to the Philippians says that we are to shine like stars.

"Who are you to judge the servant of another?" That is the question that St. Paul puts to the followers of Jesus in Rome, and to us. Since we live in a time of swift and harsh judgments, often based on very little or inaccurate information, how can we take this question seriously enough to attempt to live it out today?