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...

8-5-2026 FUMC Words for Wednesday What Holds Your Attention? The other day I found myself walking through the house looking for something. I had a purpose when I started, but somewhere along the way I noticed something on the kitchen counter that needed to be put...

7-29-2026 FUMC Words for Wednesday More Than Enough Many times, my Dad would send me into his workshop to retrieve a tool he needed for a job. I'd glance around for a minute or two, where he told me, for the tool. When I couldn't find it, I would go back and tell him...

7-22-2026 FUMC Words for Wednesday Looking a Little Closer Have you ever gone looking for something only to discover it was sitting right in front of you the whole time? I've done that more times than I care to admit. I'll search the kitchen for my phone, only to...