Matthew 25: 31-46 Due to the topic of the message this morning, I feel compelled to start this message off with something lighthearted. A house painter was cheap and sought to cut costs wherever possible. His primary device of cutting costs was to thin the paint with turpentine. He was hired to paint the steeple…
Category: labor
To the Last the Same As the First
Matthew 20: 1-16 I had a pastoral assignment, understood in United Methodist parlance as an appointment, in west Birmingham in the 90s. It was a two-church appointment. I remained at one church for six years. I exchanged the other church for leading a missional outreach project. The idea was to pastor in an “island community,”…
Psalm 102 in The Message 