Jones United Methodist Church

On Wednesday nights, we have been going through a lesson series titled “Prayers Warriors,” and it has been my hope that the youth (as well as myself) would emerge from the series as genuine prayer warriors. Throughout the course of the series, I found myself being challenged as I studied the Scriptures and examined the prayer lives of the saints in the New Testament. We read of miracles occurring, buildings shaking, doors opening, and lives changing in the midst of prayer. H

“What does it mean to see each person as Jesus does?” The church in Chicago asked this question amid the rising ugliness of last fall and initiated a city-wide campaign to hear Jesus’ mountainside teaching, In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets in short, Love Everyone, Always. This is what disciples of Jesus do, someone has likely been a saint for each one of us who live as a Christian. Who is your saint? Mr. Spill

I was visiting my family in Tennessee. My granddaughter, Meadow, age 9 asked me to play Legos. I agreed happily. Easy right? Uh, not so much! My experience from childhood and playing with my children was to free form a structure. I picked out the pieces among literally hundred of tiles to begin. My granddaughter objected. She wanted to make something from a diagram on her play sheet. Her perception of Lego s was different from mine. The pieces I intended to use, she wanted fo