Mayor Elect Bradburn, incoming Council, fellow citizens of Sandy. Sixty seven years ago, President Kennedy in his inaugural address talked about a torch being passed. Today … the torch of governance for nearly 100,000 residents of Utah is to be passed … Let us be mindful that none of us created that torch but we … More Sandy Swearing-In Remarks
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. – 1 John 4:18 ESV Fear is a natural element of the human condition. It is easy to utter the words “fear not,” but it is much more … More Casting Out Fear
Isaiah 28:11 — For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the Lord will speak to this people. Methodism grew out of two “Great Awakenings:” The first in England in the 1730s and the second in the United States in the early 1800s. Both awakenings were marked by enthusiastic response to the … More Strange and Foreign
Many, if not most, of us are familiar with the Syro-Phoenician woman. Her story appears twice in the Gospels, Mark and Matthew, and because they are a little different, I want to focus on Mark … Mark 7: 24-30 (NIV) 24 Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre.[a] He entered a house … More Listening Like Jesus …
There is a story from Medieval times … Two monks were washing their bowls in the river when they noticed a scorpion that was drowning. One monk immediately scooped it up and set it upon the bank. In the process he was stung. He went back to washing his bowl and again the scorpion fell … More Understanding our Nature
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