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Series
A Firm Foundation
A Fresh Start
A Light to The Nations
A Ray of Hope
A Season of Reflection
a way of life
Actively Trusting in the Lord
Advent
Alert and Ready
Answering the Call
Beyond
Camp Meeting Month
Camp Meetings
Coronavirus
Cultivating Strong Relationships
Deck the Halls
Detox
Discipleship
Expressions of Love
Extravagant Love
Falling Into Faith
Falling into Fath
Geared Up for Life
Grounded in Love
Harvest Time
Harvest Time Meals
Help for the Hungry
Homecoming
Hospitality
How Ya Doin?
Hunger for Healing
Joy to the World
Labor of Love
Love Connections
Moments of Reflection
New Beginnings
Oh Yeah
Pandemic
Pastor's Pen
Preparing the Way
Ray of Hope
Saturday Devo
Saturday Devotional
Season of Preparation
Sharing Our Love
Spring Forth
Spring Forward
Staying Connected
Staying Together
Stewardship
Stewardship a way of life
Summer Playlist
Taking the Time to Listen
Thankful
The Gift of Love
The Hope of Easter
The Message of Jesus
The Power of Sacrifice
The Way to the Cross
Trusting in the Lord
Unexpected Calling
Unstoppable Love
Volunteers Make A Difference
Volunteers or Servants of the Lord?
Way to the Cross
We Believe
Wednesday Devo
Wednesday Devos
Topic
a closer walk with God
a few fish
a house of prayer for all nations
A more excellent way to worship God and love God and Neighbors
A new King is chosen
a stranger
a time like this
a voice in the wilderness
Abiding
acknowledging our sinfulness
action
add nutrients
Advent
advent candles
all were filled
angel Gabriel
Anger
announcement of God's beloved Son
Annual Conference
anointing
anointing in house of Lazarus
Anxiety
armor bearer
Armor of God
Armor of the Light of Christ
ask
Asking questions
Assurance
Authority
Baptism
Baptismal vows
be baptised
be still
bear fruit
bear fruit or else
Beatitudes
bed
bed with a fever
begging
beginnings
behind closed doors
Behold the Lamb of God
Belief and unbelief
believe
believe and no not doubt
beloved Son
Bible
Black History
blanket
bless
blessed
blessing and revelation
blind
Blood
boat
born
branches can't bear fruit by themselves
bread
break
bridesmaids
Burdens
call on your team for help
Calling on the team for help
came into the world
Camping
Capernaum
casting and mendin nets
casting and mending nets
casting out demons
Cedar branch
Celebration
celebrations
change
chief priests and scribes
children
Chosen
Chrismon Tree
Christ has risen
Christ is Risen!
Christian Living
Christmas
Christmas Medley
Church
Church in unity and community
Civil Rights
clarity
Clothed in God's grace and love
Cloud of Witnesses
come
come and see and invite others
Commandments
Commitment
communal rejoicing when the lost are found
Communion
compassion
Compassion and Care of All
confession
Confidence
connected to the vine
conversion
Coronavirus
costly perfume
count what you have
Creation
creativity
Crisis
crowds
cultivation
cure for many diseases and illnesses
dance
David
debt
decisions
demoniacs
demons
den of robbers
Depression
despair
Devotion to God
Difficulty
dig around soil
dim vision
disciples
Discipleship
dividing
do not hinder them
do you want to be made well
doctrine
donkey and colt
Doubt
dove
Dramatization of the empty tomb.
drink and receive eternal bread
Easter
eat
Eight blessings
Elizabeth
Emmaus
Emotions
empowerment
empty tomb
Encouragement
Epiphany
Epiphany Sunday
Esther
Evangelism
everything that has breath
expectations
eyes opened
faint
Faith
Faith and Finances
Faith in action
faith in God
faithful friends
Faithfulness
Fasting
Father
Father' Day
Father's Day
fatherhood
fathers
favored
Fear
Feelings
fellowship
field
fig tree
Fighting temptation
Finance
find workable resolutions
finding what and who we love
finish strong
first
fish
Fishermen
Fishing with Jesus
Fishing with Jesus produces abundance
Follow
Follow Me
followers
followers of Jesus
following the star
food for the soul
For such a time as this
forgive
forgive and you will be forgiven
Forgiveness
freedom
friends
fulfillment in your hearing
full of life
Gadarenes
Generosity
Get up and go
Get Your Praise On!
Getting in God's Path and View
give
Giving
giving time and energy to your dreams
giving to those in need
Glorifying Grace
glory to God
glory to God in the Highest
go in pairs
go.
God
God carries you also
God our refuge
God shows up
God walks with you
God will send a righteous King
God's Love
good news
good news of great joy
Good News to graduates; words of wisdom
Goodness
Grace
grandchildren
grandfather
grandmother
Gratitude
Great Saints throughout history and now
greetings favored one
Grief
guilt
habits
Hamen's Decree
Hanging of the Greens
harvest is plentiful
Harvest Plentiful
have faith in God
healing
healing Simon and Andrew's Mother In-Law
hearts warmed
Heavens opened
Here I am
highly favored
hiking
Hired hand
History
Holiness
Holy Spirit
home
home visit
Homecoming
honor
Hope
Hope and love
Hope and Love. Greatest is love
hosanna
hosanna in the highest
Hospitality
Howard Thurman and Jesus and the Disinherited
hunger
hunger and thirst
hungry
Hymns
I love you
I love you forever
Identity
immediate response
Immediately
immersion
in all and for all blessings
in the church and house to house ne
Influence
inheritance
injurious spirit
inner preparation to get your heart ready
Instruments of praise
intentionality
investing
invitation to stay and eat
Isaiah
Jesus
Jesus and John
Jesus at home in Bethlehem
Jesus Baptized by John
Jesus Christ
Jesus heals the demon possessed men
Jesus is baptized by John
Jesus is risen indeed
Jesus shows up
Jordan River
Joseph
journey to Emmaus
joy
Joy in Heaven
joy in the presence of the angels of God
joy is set before you
Justifying Grace
keep God's commands
Kids
king
King Herod
King of Glory
King of Peace
Kingdom of God
kingdom of Heaven
knowing the heart of the Giver of the gift
Knowing the Word of God
laborers
lame
lamps
lamps with oil
last
lasting connections
lead me forever
Leadership
leaves
leftovers
leftovers to go and keep giving
Lent
lessons
let it be
Light
Light of the World
Lighting of the advent candle
lighting the Chrismon Tree
Lighting the Hope Candle
lights
listening and obeying
Listening to the Holy Spirit
looking up
Lord save us.
Lord's Supper
lost but found
love
Love God first
lover one another
Loving Creator
loving one another and all
lyre and harp
maim
manger
many illnesses
many parts and all important in the Body of Christ
Mary
Mary and many women
Mary Magdalene
meek
men or angels clothed in white
mental and emotional healing
merciful
Mercy
messengers
Methodists Historical
Missions
moneychangers
Mordecai
more fruit and much fruit
more fruit. mush fruit
Mother's Day
mountain
mountains
mourn
move forward
move mountains
moving forward to uttermost places
multitude
multitude of heavenly host sing
mute
my Lord and my God
native languages
native tongues in prayer
needs of the whole body
New Year
no fruit
no more excuses
not yielding to temptations in barren places
O Come
O Come Emmanuel
obedience
of the least of these
oil
One Body
one one chance
open invitation
other side
other women
our awareness of being children of God
our guide for direction
our precious children
outer or external work that results in blessings
Overcoming
owner
palms and cloaks
palms of hope
Pandemic
parable of the workers
Parents
passover
Pastor's Pen
pathway to Jesus
patience
patient endurance
Peace
peace on earth
peacemakers
perplexed
persecuted
perseverance in spite of opposition
Peter and John
Peter and the disciples
Philippians
physical needs
picked from the pasture
planning ahead
pondering for wisdom
poor in Spirit
postions of glory
pouring
Power
Power of Three
power.witnesses
praise
praising God
pray and believe
pray for workers
Prayer
prayer in a deserted place
prayers
praying to the Lord
prepare for the Christ Child
prepare the way
prepared every moment
preparing for Jesus's burial
Pride versus humility
prisoners free
proclaim peace upon that house and the Kingdom of God has come
profession of faith
provisions
pruning
pure in heart
Questions
rafting
ready
reaffirmation of our Baptismal vows
Reflections on mission trip to Kenya
refuge
rejoice always and everywhere
Rejoice an be glad
Rejoice in all times
rejoicing
rejoicing in the midst of suffering
Relationship
relying on the Holy Spirit
remain in Gods love
Renewal of Our Baptism Covenant
repent
repent and return to God's will and ways
repent for the remission of sins
Repentance
respond in love
Responses to the Good News
results
Resurrection
resurrection Sunday
returning home another way
rewards
riding on a dockey and colt
righteous King
rivers
roadmap to the star
roll with the punches
roof top
Rule of Three
rushing wind
Sacrifice
Sadness
Salvation
salvation is near
Sanctification
Saul
save us now!
Sea of Galilee
search me and know me
Second Sunday in Advent
See
seeds
seeing and doing
seeing for yourself even when other witness
seeing Jesus
selling
sent forth
sent forth with help from the Holy Spirit
Sermon On the Mount
servant of the Lord
servants
service to all
seven loves
shame
sharing knowledge
sharing the Good News
Sheep
sheep and goats
Shepherd
shepherds visited by an angel of the Lord
Shining Star
sight for the blind
skillful with instruments
social emotional needs
soil
Son
Son of David
Son of God
Son of the Most High
sons
sons and instruments
soothing music when tormented
Sorrow
sound
sowing
speaking
Spiritual
Spiritual Discipline
spiritual sight
sprinkling
Standing Strong
standing together
star
status
stay awake
stay focused on purpose of home visit
Stewardship
stone rolled away
storm
strength
Students
Suffering
swine
swine and swineherds
Sycamore Tree
symbol of peace
Synagogue
take
take nothing with you but Jesus
take nothing with you but the Gospel and trust in Jesusdo
talents
teaching
team effort and trust
tell others what has happened
Temptation
Temptation is a lure of sin
temptations
ten commandments
tending sheep
the Advent Wreath
The faithful
The fourth servant song
The Gift and the Giver
the holly and Ivy
the Holy Spirit
The king
the King and Mordeci
The king is coming
the kingdom of heaven
the light within us
the little ones
the Lord of hosts
The love and heart of the Giver
the one who knows you also carries you
the perfect lamb of God
The Pharasee and the tax collector
the places you will go on your journey
The Power of God
the promise
The prophet declares a child will be born
the sower of seed and four types of soil
the spirit of the Lord
the way
the word
Thomas plea is answered
Thomas sees Jesus
those who are blessed
thr right and the left of Jesus
to God Be the Glory
today a savior is born to all people
tombs
tongues as of fire
tongues of fire
torment
touch
touched and lifted up
treasure
treasures
treasures for a King
trials versus temptations
Trinity
triumphal entry
trouble
true devotion in various ways
Trust
trust and obey
Truth
truth and life
Two footprints or one
Unclean Spirits
Valentine's Day
venture on to other towns
vineyard
virgin
voice
Voice crying out
Voice of God
Volunteer Appreciation Day
vows
Waiting
waiting over
wake up
walking
water and Spirit
we thank thee
wedding banquet
Wedding preparations
well pleased
What is this
what should we do
what will you do.
what will you leave behind?
whole city gathered around
wisdom and understanding
wise men
Wise men from the East
witness
Women who influenced John Wesley
word
words
workers
workers few
Worry
Worship
wreath of evergreens
Youth Sunday
Book
Luke
Philippians
Matthew
John
Mark
Corinthians
Psalms
Romans
1 Corinthians
2 Corinthian
Genesis
1 Peter
Acts
1 John
Thankfulness
fellowship
faith
focus
forging ahead
team work. the Gospel
Good News
family and friends partnerships
Isaiah
2 Corinthians
2 Samuel
Ephesians
James
Proverbs
Psalm
Ruth
Job
Hebrews
Revelation
Micah
Zephaniah
pro
Numbers
Jude
Exodus
Colossians
Ex
Joshua
Judges
Joel
Timothy
1 Timothy
Jeremiah
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