Read Together UMCNA

Read Together UMCNA Week 29

Can you recall a time when you were separated from what is comfortable and familiar? Using our readings from Isaiah this week, Rev. Emily Freeman Penfield reminds us that even when we're adrift in a sea of loneliness or doubt, we can never be completely lost. We belong to the God who created us.

Read Together UMCNA Week 28

What do you do when you hear the worst possible news? Rev. Becky Scott recalls how, when your heart is heavy with grief and your own prayers just won't come, you sometimes have to count on the prayers of others.

Read Together UMCNA Week 27

Rev. Henry Gibson has some questions for us to consider as we read Isaiah together. Are you ready to discern your part in creating a more peaceful existence?

Read Together UMCNA Week 26

What are we to make of the love conversations we find in Song of Solomon? Why is this book in the Bible? Rev. Amy Parsons Vaughn helps us understand the allegory it offers regarding how we love one another and how God loves us.

 

 

 

Read Together UMCNA Week 25

Reverend Zach Langer, in pondering the story of Job, discerns that we must go beyond looking for reasons bad things happen to good people, and acknowledge that maybe it is in difficulty that we are most able to see the grace of God in its true abundance.

Read Together UMCNA Week 24

Of the many lessons we can learn from the book of Job, Rev. Andy Curtis focuses on this: we are not called to defend God, rather we are called to grow in our love for God and others.

Read Together UMCNA Week 23

Are you ready to look around your own hometown and look for the things that break your heart? This is the lesson Marian Royston shares from Nehemiah's story in this week's podcast.

Read Together UMCNA Week 22

Commitment. Dedication. Perseverance. According to Terry McElheny, the same qualities that apply to a successful Olympic athlete make for a successful disciple of Jesus Christ. How's your race going?

Read Together UMCNA Week 21

Rev. Donna Godwin reminds us how important it is to surround ourselves with wise counselors. If we do this, while always walking in the truth of God, we will avoid the disaster that following bad advice can bring.

Read Together UMCNA Week 20

Hearing from God isn't always dramatic, like the fire from heaven in this week's reading. No, more often it's a quiet nudge. In any case, as Lisa Keys-Mathews points out, we should always be open, waiting expectantly for the word God wants us to hear.