10-14-2026 FUMC Words for Wednesday Blessed to Be a Blessing Have you ever stopped to think about how much of your life has been shaped by blessings you never asked for, never earned, and sometimes didn't even notice? We often think of God's blessings in terms of the...

10-7-2026 FUMC Words for Wednesday Our Response This Sunday we will do something very simple. We will bring a card forward. On that card will be a number representing what we prayerfully intend to give to the ministry of First United Methodist Church during 2027. But...

9-30-2026 FUMC Words for Wednesday What Comes Next? There are certain sounds I think a church ought to make. There ought to be singing. There ought to be laughter. There ought to be conversation in the hallway when everybody is supposed to be going home. And every now...

9-23-2026 FUMC Words for Wednesday Making Room Church buildings are funny things. We spend a lot of money maintaining rooms that spend part of their lives sitting empty. Then somebody opens a door. Children arrive. A community group gathers. Someone comes to...

9-16-2026 FUMC Words for Wednesday More Than Money Whenever the church starts talking about stewardship, most of us know what is coming. Money. And yes, money is part of it. Jesus certainly wasn't afraid to talk about money and what our relationship with it reveals...

9-9-2026 FUMC Words for Wednesday Because Someone Gave Most of us can probably remember a church that helped shape our lives. Maybe it was this church. Maybe it was somewhere else. There was a Sunday School teacher who remembered our name. A choir that sang a hymn we...

9-2-2026 FUMC Words for Wednesday What God Is Doing Through Us Sometimes you don't notice how much happens around a church until you stop and pay attention. We tend to think about church in terms of Sunday morning. We come through the doors, find our usual seat,...

8-26-2026 FUMC Words for Wednesday More Than Good Intentions A few weeks ago, I was looking through a stack of papers at home, trying to find a receipt, and found something else instead—a list of projects I had planned to finish. Some of them had checkmarks beside...

8-19-2026 FUMC Words for Wednesday More Than a Name It's interesting how we can know someone's name long before we really know the person. Maybe you've seen a neighbor for years. You wave as you pull into the driveway. You know where they live, what kind of car they...

8-12-2026 FUMC Words for Wednesday Keep Asking Children have a way of asking for the same thing more than once.   Sometimes much more than once. “Can we stop for ice cream?” “Did you hear me?” “Can we stop for ice cream?” “Maybe on the way home.” “So…can we stop...