Read Together UMCNA

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.

Read Together UMCNA Week 19

Rev. Mike Densmore reflects that when we study the history of God's relationship with us, we come to realize that God is not just God over us—God is God with us and God for us.

Read Together UMCNA Week 18

Rev. Reid Turner shares how Israel has fallen away from God, and must be reminded that the Lord God is the only God.

Read Together UMCNA Week 17

Rev. Lewis Archer talks about the worst of Israel's kings. A bad king in every way, Ahab is yet forgiven in the end by a loving God.