This week I would like to talk about the many promises God has given to us, and how we reconcile them as both Christians and followers of the Hebrew Bible. God promised to Abraham that he would have many descendants, and that they would prosper. Many Christians today have taken this to mean that to follow God means that we will never have hard times, and that if we do, we are somehow doing it wrong. For them, if you really, truly have faith, then God will bless you in all ways.
On the other hand, in the New Testament we are given the promises of Jesus, which look completely different. We are promised that the poor will be the inheritors of the kingdom of God. We are promised that those who are hated and excluded in Jesus' name will be blessed. Many can take these promises to mean that we must be completely self-giving, to the point that they lose their sense of self.
So, what is the balance between these two? That is what I want to explore this week. And because it is Communion Sunday and the children and youth are to stay in church, I plan to make the sermon more young person-friendly, by using familiar language and some congregation interaction.
If you have any thoughts or suggestions on the above topic, please email me at meganryan@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to allow the congregation to read your thoughts, click on the comments box below.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Megan Ryan
Monday, August 30, 2010
Monday's Thoughts on Sunday's Sermon
Our preacher on Sunday, September 5th, is our new Youth Pastor Meg Ryan. She is a graduate of Claremont School of Theology. She has been out of seminary two years and had been serving a United Methodist Church in California. Her sermon title is "Promise Keepers". She will post her progress on the sermon and will be asking for suggestions and reflections.
Meg is enthusiastic about youth ministry, the ministry at First Church, and the opportunity to return back home. She grew up in Pueblo.
We are fortunate to have Meg as a member of the church staff and look forward to hearing her sermon.
If you would like to communicate with me write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have the congregation read your comments click on the "comments" box below. I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
Meg is enthusiastic about youth ministry, the ministry at First Church, and the opportunity to return back home. She grew up in Pueblo.
We are fortunate to have Meg as a member of the church staff and look forward to hearing her sermon.
If you would like to communicate with me write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have the congregation read your comments click on the "comments" box below. I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
Friday, August 27, 2010
Friday's thoughts on Sunday's sermon
As I've worked through the sermon this week I realize I haven't been concerned with how Teilhard de Chardin thinks and haven't tried to put a sermon together on his ideas as much as I have been interested in how Teilhard de Chardin looks.
He is a Process Theologian and, therefore, he sees God in a particular way. I find his theology to be really helpful. It causes me to think about God on a level I hadn't really considered otherwise. God, for Teilhard, is not looking for God as a supernatural force that intervene in our world in ways that can be evoked by prayer and supplication. God is a flow in the matrix of life and we can attach ourselves to it and become part of it.
What is most interesting about Teilhard is how he looks and I am presenting the sermon with this in mind because I am convinced that how we look determines what we see.
There are three approaches Teilhard has to life.
1. He looks for the best in the worst of times.
2. He looks for the future in the exploration of the past.
3. He looks for God when he thinks of the world.
There is optimism, and futurism, and theism for Teilhard. What happens for us when we look for the best, when we think of the future, and when we focus on God in the world? I think life adds richness to our living and I think we begin to see some things that are so important that we would, otherwise, miss.
What do you think? How do you look? What do you see?
If you have thoughts on this write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the "comments" box below.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
He is a Process Theologian and, therefore, he sees God in a particular way. I find his theology to be really helpful. It causes me to think about God on a level I hadn't really considered otherwise. God, for Teilhard, is not looking for God as a supernatural force that intervene in our world in ways that can be evoked by prayer and supplication. God is a flow in the matrix of life and we can attach ourselves to it and become part of it.
What is most interesting about Teilhard is how he looks and I am presenting the sermon with this in mind because I am convinced that how we look determines what we see.
There are three approaches Teilhard has to life.
1. He looks for the best in the worst of times.
2. He looks for the future in the exploration of the past.
3. He looks for God when he thinks of the world.
There is optimism, and futurism, and theism for Teilhard. What happens for us when we look for the best, when we think of the future, and when we focus on God in the world? I think life adds richness to our living and I think we begin to see some things that are so important that we would, otherwise, miss.
What do you think? How do you look? What do you see?
If you have thoughts on this write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the "comments" box below.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Wednesday's thoughts on Sunday's sermon
There are some theologians whose ideas are so strikingly interesting they cause us to think about things we never have. Paul Tillich's idea that God is "the ground of all being" or Karl Rahner's concept that there must be a "Word" from God since "we are hearers of the Word."
Teilhard de Chardin was a Process Theologian. He saw God as a process alive in the world. He believed that we can respond to it or reject it, but there is something that is calling us toward the idea the there is love in the world. God is that which calls us toward the love. There is a process that is leading us. We can choose to respond or not but we have an opportunity to respond and to be part of something bigger than we know.
What is more important than the ideas Teilhard had discovered is the way he looks at the things he sees. The sermon will focus on the way he looks and what he sees and we are invited to look that way with a view to seeing some things in different ways.
Teilhard looked at the world and he saw God. He looked at God and he saw the world.
How we look determines what we see. How do you look and, as a result, what do you see?
If you have thoughts on this write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the box below.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
Teilhard de Chardin was a Process Theologian. He saw God as a process alive in the world. He believed that we can respond to it or reject it, but there is something that is calling us toward the idea the there is love in the world. God is that which calls us toward the love. There is a process that is leading us. We can choose to respond or not but we have an opportunity to respond and to be part of something bigger than we know.
What is more important than the ideas Teilhard had discovered is the way he looks at the things he sees. The sermon will focus on the way he looks and what he sees and we are invited to look that way with a view to seeing some things in different ways.
Teilhard looked at the world and he saw God. He looked at God and he saw the world.
How we look determines what we see. How do you look and, as a result, what do you see?
If you have thoughts on this write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the box below.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
Monday, August 23, 2010
Monday's Thoughts On Sunday's Sermon
Continuing with the series of sermons on theologians I have moved from Diana Eck who believed in a theology of pluralism, to John Wesley who developed a theology of perfectibility, to the theologian for August 29th; Teilhard de Chardin.
Why I would choose to do a sermon series on theologians? It is my belief that the church has, as one of its most important functions, a theological task. The church is a place where we are encouraged to think theologically. That is, the church is a place where we are to take our personal struggles and celebrations and put them in a perspective of something ultimate. We are to ask the question, "What am I doing with the life I have been given and how does that line up with issues related to what I experience with God.
Theologians each have a unique perspective that they bring. Some of them we can understand easily and others are more difficult to grasp. Every one of us is a theologian. We have an idea of what God is and how God relates to us and to our world.
Teilhard de Chardin was a French Catholic paleontologist and theologian. His ideas were so radical that his church refused to let him teach or to publish his books. He spent his life searching for the orgins of civilization and was one who discovered Peking Man; a major archaeological discovery in China.
What I appreciate about Teilhard is the way in which he is able to look at the world and to find God. Alternatively, he is able to envision God and that allows him to see the world in a whole new way.
For those who are not familiar with Teilhard I think you will enjoy his theology. For those who already know something about him I invite you to share your insights with me. He believed "there is a process alive in the universe. There is something in the world that is calling us to respond. That something is God."
I look forward to hearing from you. Write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the "comments" box below.
Charles Schuster
Why I would choose to do a sermon series on theologians? It is my belief that the church has, as one of its most important functions, a theological task. The church is a place where we are encouraged to think theologically. That is, the church is a place where we are to take our personal struggles and celebrations and put them in a perspective of something ultimate. We are to ask the question, "What am I doing with the life I have been given and how does that line up with issues related to what I experience with God.
Theologians each have a unique perspective that they bring. Some of them we can understand easily and others are more difficult to grasp. Every one of us is a theologian. We have an idea of what God is and how God relates to us and to our world.
Teilhard de Chardin was a French Catholic paleontologist and theologian. His ideas were so radical that his church refused to let him teach or to publish his books. He spent his life searching for the orgins of civilization and was one who discovered Peking Man; a major archaeological discovery in China.
What I appreciate about Teilhard is the way in which he is able to look at the world and to find God. Alternatively, he is able to envision God and that allows him to see the world in a whole new way.
For those who are not familiar with Teilhard I think you will enjoy his theology. For those who already know something about him I invite you to share your insights with me. He believed "there is a process alive in the universe. There is something in the world that is calling us to respond. That something is God."
I look forward to hearing from you. Write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the "comments" box below.
Charles Schuster
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Tuesday's thougths on Sunday's sermon
This Sunday we will be looking at the scriptural theme of hospitality. Interestingly, both the Old and New Testaments list hospitality as a spiritual imperative. But in our culture today, hospitality is not a spiritual imperative, but a social activity. We give hospitality when we grill out or take a pie to a new neighbor. One theologian has suggested that Christian hospitality is a discipline of welcoming the stranger at all times - to welcome the person who is homeless, or the person grieving. Hospitality forces the giver to create space for another. And, as the scripture says, when we welcome the stranger, we welcome God. What do you think? Is Christian hospitality different from, say, hotel hospitality? How? Why?
If you have suggestions or comments please feel free to write me at rebeccamcfee@gmail.com. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the "comments" box below. I look forward to hearing from you.
Rebecca Mcfee
If you have suggestions or comments please feel free to write me at rebeccamcfee@gmail.com. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the "comments" box below. I look forward to hearing from you.
Rebecca Mcfee
Monday, August 16, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Friday's thoughts on Sunday's sermon
What do we do when, like John Wesley, we find our faith in question? What happens when we wonder about the veracity of what we believe? Where do we turn and how do we work our way out of our questioning attitude and our cynicism?
We noted that often the "founders have floundered". John Wesley, Paul, Jesus, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther, and many other people of faith have had what Kierkegaard called "the dark night of the soul".
There isn't a person of faith who hasn't had moments of confusion and doubt. There are two things we do when we flounder.
1. We fake it until we make it. Wesley was told to "preach faith until he had faith". We can act "as if" until "as if" becomes "is".
2. We get it and then we let it go. There will come a time when there is a glimpse of faith and we allow it to move us where it will. Wesley called it "moving on to perfection" and suggested it is "by faith alone".
The points of the sermon:
a. The founder floundered
b. He faked it until he could make it
c. He found that he could get it and then he let it go
There is a dishonoring of the struggle if this process is presented as easy, because faith is not easy. It is always a struggle. But it does suggest that we never want to wallow in our doubt and cynicism and we always want to try to move forward.
What do you think? If you have some reflections write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the "comments" box below.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
We noted that often the "founders have floundered". John Wesley, Paul, Jesus, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther, and many other people of faith have had what Kierkegaard called "the dark night of the soul".
There isn't a person of faith who hasn't had moments of confusion and doubt. There are two things we do when we flounder.
1. We fake it until we make it. Wesley was told to "preach faith until he had faith". We can act "as if" until "as if" becomes "is".
2. We get it and then we let it go. There will come a time when there is a glimpse of faith and we allow it to move us where it will. Wesley called it "moving on to perfection" and suggested it is "by faith alone".
The points of the sermon:
a. The founder floundered
b. He faked it until he could make it
c. He found that he could get it and then he let it go
There is a dishonoring of the struggle if this process is presented as easy, because faith is not easy. It is always a struggle. But it does suggest that we never want to wallow in our doubt and cynicism and we always want to try to move forward.
What do you think? If you have some reflections write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the "comments" box below.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Wednesday's thoughts on Sunday's sermon
In working through some of the research of John Wesley I am beginning to see some things in him that make his especially interesting and relevant to us. Most of us have heard the story about the time when he was young and he went to a Moravian service of worship and he heard someone reading from Paul's letter to the Romans. It was stated that he went to the service reluctantly and it was stated that he said, "My heart was strangely warmed." The heard warming experience is something that has been a hallmark of our church. It is a way of expressing faith that comes through the affect as well as the intellect. Faith is something we can feel as well as something we can learn about by study.
Some of us have heard that when John Wesley was older and was thinking about his past he wrote his brother in code. He didn't want anyone to read it other than his brother Charles. He indicated that the things he had preached and taught were things that were alien to him. He really didn't believe it and he had been a fraud. Richard Heitzenrader decoded the letters about 20 years ago and discovered the ultimate sense of doubt Wesley had and the idea that he thought himself to be a failure.
I discovered something that happened to John Wesley after he had been expelled from America. He had been in Georgia. He went there to convert people and found that he, himself, needed conversion. There was an unfortunate love affair and he had been labeled an "enthusiast". He was expelled.
At that time in his life he had a mentor. It was Peter Bohler who was a Brethren pastor and leader. He told Bohler that he didn't have a depth of faith. Bohler told him that he should preach it and then he would have it.
How do we recover a sense of belief? Do we preach it until we believe it? Do we fake it until we make it? Is it a matter of the power of positive thinking?
What do you think? Have you ever had a crisis of faith? How did you overcome it?
If you have suggestions write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have other people read your thoughts click on the "comments" box below.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
Some of us have heard that when John Wesley was older and was thinking about his past he wrote his brother in code. He didn't want anyone to read it other than his brother Charles. He indicated that the things he had preached and taught were things that were alien to him. He really didn't believe it and he had been a fraud. Richard Heitzenrader decoded the letters about 20 years ago and discovered the ultimate sense of doubt Wesley had and the idea that he thought himself to be a failure.
I discovered something that happened to John Wesley after he had been expelled from America. He had been in Georgia. He went there to convert people and found that he, himself, needed conversion. There was an unfortunate love affair and he had been labeled an "enthusiast". He was expelled.
At that time in his life he had a mentor. It was Peter Bohler who was a Brethren pastor and leader. He told Bohler that he didn't have a depth of faith. Bohler told him that he should preach it and then he would have it.
How do we recover a sense of belief? Do we preach it until we believe it? Do we fake it until we make it? Is it a matter of the power of positive thinking?
What do you think? Have you ever had a crisis of faith? How did you overcome it?
If you have suggestions write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have other people read your thoughts click on the "comments" box below.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Monday's thoughts on Sunday's Sermon
What I am about to suggest would not go over too well with the people who approve candidates for ministry and there are many colleagues who would have a serious problem were they to know I thought it. I don't think John Wesley was much of a theologian. He seems to be to have been a mediocre thinker whose confusion theologically has led to a denomination that continues to be confused theologically.
In the sermon this coming Sunday I intend to expose some of the weaknesses and strengths in some of his basic ideas surrounding the concept of grace.
His position was clear when it came to grace. He believed we are given the grace of God by virtue of the fact that we are on this earth. He believed that we are given the option of justifying grace when we make a mistake or sin. He believed that we can evolve into sanctifying grace as we have the possibility of moving forward in love.
He has trouble with the Deist who believe God is not involved in the world and he disagreed with Calvinists who held the position that some people were the elect and all others were not.
John Wesley is the founder of our denomination who had no intent on founding a denomination; he simply wanted to reform the Church of England.
Sunday I am going to have us take a critical look at the founder of our denomination to see what we can release and what we can reclaim.
What do you think about John Wesley as a theologian? If you have thoughts on this subject write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the "comments" box below.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
In the sermon this coming Sunday I intend to expose some of the weaknesses and strengths in some of his basic ideas surrounding the concept of grace.
His position was clear when it came to grace. He believed we are given the grace of God by virtue of the fact that we are on this earth. He believed that we are given the option of justifying grace when we make a mistake or sin. He believed that we can evolve into sanctifying grace as we have the possibility of moving forward in love.
He has trouble with the Deist who believe God is not involved in the world and he disagreed with Calvinists who held the position that some people were the elect and all others were not.
John Wesley is the founder of our denomination who had no intent on founding a denomination; he simply wanted to reform the Church of England.
Sunday I am going to have us take a critical look at the founder of our denomination to see what we can release and what we can reclaim.
What do you think about John Wesley as a theologian? If you have thoughts on this subject write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the "comments" box below.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
Friday, August 6, 2010
Friday's thougths on Sunday's sermon
It has been interesting to think about Meister Eckhart and why his theology was so controversial. Put as frankly as possible it seems to come down to this:
Most of us are comfortable with the idea that "God is with us". It is an idea that comes from the word "Immanuel" and that means, "God with us". We think about how God is with us in the hard times and how God being with us enables us to face the worst of times with dignity and courage.
Eckhart, on the other hand, suggested that "God was in us". He wrote about and spoke about how we can empty ourselves and God will be in us. He wrote about how God has this need and desire to be in us. When God is in us we are freed of all the encumbrances of life and we live life to the fullest.
For some people the idea of God in us is too strong; or it puts God in a position of being too weak. There is not a sense of the "Wholly Other" in a concept that makes God immanent rather than transcendent.
Leading from the idea of an immanent God, Eckhart invites us to look at sacred moments, holy human, and the saintly self.
Eckhart's ideas awaken us to think of God in a new and interesting way.
Do you think of God as needing to be in us?
Does Eckhart go too far?
If you have thoughts on this write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the "comments" box below.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
Most of us are comfortable with the idea that "God is with us". It is an idea that comes from the word "Immanuel" and that means, "God with us". We think about how God is with us in the hard times and how God being with us enables us to face the worst of times with dignity and courage.
Eckhart, on the other hand, suggested that "God was in us". He wrote about and spoke about how we can empty ourselves and God will be in us. He wrote about how God has this need and desire to be in us. When God is in us we are freed of all the encumbrances of life and we live life to the fullest.
For some people the idea of God in us is too strong; or it puts God in a position of being too weak. There is not a sense of the "Wholly Other" in a concept that makes God immanent rather than transcendent.
Leading from the idea of an immanent God, Eckhart invites us to look at sacred moments, holy human, and the saintly self.
Eckhart's ideas awaken us to think of God in a new and interesting way.
Do you think of God as needing to be in us?
Does Eckhart go too far?
If you have thoughts on this write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the "comments" box below.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Wednesday's thoughts on Sunday's sermon
Meister Eckhart gives us an idea that is so outrageous that it defies contemplation. It seems impossible and we may wonder what we are to do with it.
Eckhart believes we have the capacity to empty ourselves and to be a part of God. He thinks that "Without God we can do nothing" and "Without us God can do nothing".
He believes that we and God can be one. What are the implications of this line of thinking? What does it say about Original Sin? What does it say about the power of God and the omnipotence and omnipresence of God? Is God something separate from us or are we and God part of the same?
He writes, "The strongest prayer, one well-nigh almighty in what it can effect, and the most exalted work a man can do proceed from a pure heart. The more pure it is, the more prayerful, and the more exalted, useful, laudable, and perfect is its prayer and work. A pure heart is capable of anything.
What is a pure heart?
A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted, and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God, having denied self. Let a job be so inconsiderable, it will be raised in effectiveness and dimension by a pure heart.
We ought so to pray that every member and faculty, eyes, ears, mouth, heart, and the senses shall be directed to this end and never cease prayer until we attain with God to whom our prayers and attention are directed, namely, God."
How do we move from our self concern to liberate ourselves from ourselves and begin to see ourselves in God and to see God in us?
The sermon calls that into question. I will try to examine how we accomplish that.
How do we empty ourselves in order to be filled with God?
What do you think? If you have thoughts write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the "comments" box below.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
Eckhart believes we have the capacity to empty ourselves and to be a part of God. He thinks that "Without God we can do nothing" and "Without us God can do nothing".
He believes that we and God can be one. What are the implications of this line of thinking? What does it say about Original Sin? What does it say about the power of God and the omnipotence and omnipresence of God? Is God something separate from us or are we and God part of the same?
He writes, "The strongest prayer, one well-nigh almighty in what it can effect, and the most exalted work a man can do proceed from a pure heart. The more pure it is, the more prayerful, and the more exalted, useful, laudable, and perfect is its prayer and work. A pure heart is capable of anything.
What is a pure heart?
A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted, and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God, having denied self. Let a job be so inconsiderable, it will be raised in effectiveness and dimension by a pure heart.
We ought so to pray that every member and faculty, eyes, ears, mouth, heart, and the senses shall be directed to this end and never cease prayer until we attain with God to whom our prayers and attention are directed, namely, God."
How do we move from our self concern to liberate ourselves from ourselves and begin to see ourselves in God and to see God in us?
The sermon calls that into question. I will try to examine how we accomplish that.
How do we empty ourselves in order to be filled with God?
What do you think? If you have thoughts write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the "comments" box below.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Monday's thoughts on Sunday's sermon
Meister Eckhart had this idea that we do well to heed today. He said, "And God expects one thing of you and this is this. In so far as you are a created being you can come out of yourself and let God be God in you."
Sunday's sermon will focus one of the most original thinkers ever to share thoughts that have down through the ages. There is in Eckhart a kind of mysticism that is very real and earthy. He writes on such a way that we can begin to realize.
He lived in the 13th Century and he believed that Kingdom of God was the divine presence found in all things and places. Rather than encouraging us to escape the world to find God he urged his hearers to lean into the world where God was waiting to be reunited with us. He wrote, "God is at home. It is we who have gone for a walk." The Kingdom of God is realized when we come home and that happens when we act with love and compassion and justice.
He wrote, "You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."
For those who do not know Meister Eckhart it will be my pleasure to introduce him to you. For those who have an understanding of his thinking it will be my challenge to try to move as close as I am able to the source of his inspiration.
I will probably need some help with this one. If you have studied Eckhart in the past and have some suggestions I appreciate your input. Write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the "comments" box below.
If you would like a rough draft of the sermon at the end of the week indicate that and I am happy to email that to you.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
Sunday's sermon will focus one of the most original thinkers ever to share thoughts that have down through the ages. There is in Eckhart a kind of mysticism that is very real and earthy. He writes on such a way that we can begin to realize.
He lived in the 13th Century and he believed that Kingdom of God was the divine presence found in all things and places. Rather than encouraging us to escape the world to find God he urged his hearers to lean into the world where God was waiting to be reunited with us. He wrote, "God is at home. It is we who have gone for a walk." The Kingdom of God is realized when we come home and that happens when we act with love and compassion and justice.
He wrote, "You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."
For those who do not know Meister Eckhart it will be my pleasure to introduce him to you. For those who have an understanding of his thinking it will be my challenge to try to move as close as I am able to the source of his inspiration.
I will probably need some help with this one. If you have studied Eckhart in the past and have some suggestions I appreciate your input. Write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to have others read your thoughts click on the "comments" box below.
If you would like a rough draft of the sermon at the end of the week indicate that and I am happy to email that to you.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
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