Posts from August 2026

Introduction This Sunday begins Knowing Who We Are, a six-week series in our year of considering what it means to be United Methodist. Recently, we have explored our history and our baptismal promises, and over these next six weeks, we’ll journey through grace, our practice of faith, and look again at our beliefs as United Methodists. In 1742, John Wesley asked, “Who is a Methodist?” His answer, rooted in Romans 5:5, was that a Methodist is one who has the love…

Introduction This is the final Sunday of Our Baptismal Vows, our summer series on the promises of the United Methodist baptismal covenant. We’ve renounced the powers that diminish us, accepted the freedom God gives us to resist evil and injustice, confessed Jesus Christ as Savior, and promised to nurture one another in faith. The fifth and final promise is the profession of faith itself, the central words of the Apostles’ Creed: to believe in God, in Jesus Christ, in the Holy…