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Trumix.com listings available of Grace - Not Perfect but Faithful Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. CUMC 136: "Faith 101: Falling Again and Again and ...." Sin is separation from God, others and ourselves. Sin is a word that helps us diagnose our spirit disease and permits God in whom there is no condemnation to heal us with a perfect love and move us in the right direction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 137: "Faith 101: Here He Comes to Save the Day" In the midst of our dark and shattered lives Jesus comes into the world as a light that dispels the darkness, and lifts the weight of judgment and guilt by giving us a loophole - grace upon grace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 138: "Faith 101: Is Anybody There?" Unanswered prayer is a reality of our lives generally because we want our prayers answered in the way we want and in the time frame we want. Waiting for God's time to answer our prayers means the answer will always be the right and good one even if we do not see it at the time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 139: "Faith 101: It's a Hard Knock Life" In the midst of the stale and dark air of confusion, greed, and arrogance the world throws at us, the Holy Spirit promises us a Holy Gentle Wind that comes to those who receive Christ as a breath of fresh air. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 140: "Allowing Time for Questions" by Bill Schwein Christianity is about both asking and answering questions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 141: "Something to Preach About" When the storms assail us, be they economic, physical, or spiritual, and others are waiting for them to pass, Christians can learn to dance in the rain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 129: "Summertime and the Livin' Is Easy? Play" If our living is to be easier during any season of the year it means we must play not obsessively but in a way that will help us interact with nature, laugh, and care for ourselves physically. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 130: "Summertime and the Livin' Is Easy? Vacations" Faith journeys look like great vacations that make our summertime living easier, make our lives easier when we trust God for the good in life; accept God's confidence in us to succeed; know that God will sustain us along the way; and guide us to a destination that will delight us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 131: "Que Sera, Sera" by Jackie Chandler What will be, will be. Jesus stayed in the moment during His time on earth. In the moment, God's presence will provide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 132: "What? Are You Giving Up?" by Bill Schwein God helps us hang on and hang in there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 133: "In God We Trust" Trusting in God permits us to let go of subjects and matters that have become too difficult for us and find contentment and peace in knowing we have done everything we can. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 134: "Not Seeing. Yet Believing" Faith carries with it the willingness to take risks for what we believe; to trust what God envisions for us rather than what we envision for ourselves; and to tackle the what if, embrace the what is and move forward to the what will be. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 135: "Faith 101: Losing God in the Details" We can take scripture so literally that we miss grandeur and wonder of God in the details. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 121: "Embarrassed by Life: Economics" When our economic situation in life embarrasses us, it is an opportunity for us to make some changes in our life by knowing who we are (our real priorities), how we feel about money, looking for the lifeline that God will be throwing us, and tithing (10% before taxes) for our sake and the sake of others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 122: "Embarrassed by Life: Health" So many people are embarrassed when they become sick. To overcome this embarrassment we need to reach out to others, let them embrace us, be sure caregivers take care of themselves and seek what God may expect of us during this time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 123: "Accepting God's Challenge" When we accept God's challenge to tithe, both as individuals and as a church, we avoid the curse of self-absorption and live the blessings that come from sharing with others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 125: "Becoming a Contagious Christian Again: The Story" Christians have a great story to tell to the world that god is light and in God there is no darkness. This light brings hope where there is despair, reconciliation where there is division, peace where there is war, forgiveness where there is vengeance. Once we accept our need to receiver the gift of God's love we cannot but help share this with others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 126: "Becoming a Contagious Christian Again: The Story Teller" In this highly politically charged year we must be careful lest people hide their political views behind Christian language and preach a gospel based on fear rather then hope. In the midst of those who pander to our fears we need to preach the gospel of peace over war; reconciliation over division; love over hate; and hope over despair. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 127: "Brand Loyalty" by Matt Lipan When loyalty to the “Christian” brand pulls us away from the person and message of Christ. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 128: "Summertime and the Livin' Is Easy? Daylight Saving" Summertime is not easy living' when we are so busy we can’t observe a Sabbath that reminds us that we can simplify our lives, develop new relationships while caring for the old ones, and walk as children of the light. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 120: "Embarrassed by Life: Family" No matter how embarrassed we are by our family, God has suffered through it with us yet calls us his children. How does God do this, and what lessons might we learn in coping with our own families? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 114: "From an Empty Tomb to an Empty Pew" by Bill Schwein The Sunday after Easter may be a good time to think about worship attendance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 115: "Live to Give" by Kenn Kington There are two kinds of people; those who live to give and those who live to take. Your decision will define the quality of your life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 116: "Youth Sunday at Castleton" Growing relationships by Ali Ostrom and Jeff Hetland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 117: "Why I Am a United Methodist Christian" The Top Ten Reasons I Am a United Methodist Christian. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 118: "The Power of Faith" The power of faith is expressed in seed-sized steps not in super-sized efforts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 119: "Embarrassed by Life: Marriage" Marriage like so many events in our lives will embarrass us. We can work at it in all the right ways, but when marriage is broken or fails, we need to remember that God and the community of faith is with us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 113: "Living Without Fear" Living without fear requires a foundation rooted in a love so perfect that fear has no presence; inviting others to help you stand against your fear; and owning the power of the resurrection for yourself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 112: "A City in Hand is Worth More Than a Worm and a Bush" God is able to look at what we think is hopeless and redeem it because God's imagination and power is greater than our own. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 111: "The Healthy Choice" The verdict is in - people who choose to predicate their lives on being a forgiving person live longer and are healthier. Jesus indicated this two thousand years ago that though it is a narrow gate and a hard road, entering is the choice that leads to life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 108: "Have We Forgotten How to Blush?" We've so lowered the bar for decency that we've forgotten the creative way in which shame can change our lives and the lives of those around us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 109: "Where Are They?" Simple civility begins with us (Christians) and not them and is one of the many little things that will make us a better people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 110: "A Reverence for Place" It is important that Christians observe and teach a reverence (respect, awe and affection for God) for the sanctuary where we go, as a gathered community, to meet God. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 37 "A Party With a Past" We do not have to celebrate alone, but are surrounded with those who have taught us how to celebrate life and the God in us all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 38 "Who Would You Rather Party With" There is no one with whom we may party in the world that brings us real hope than Christ. What the world offers us as a party partner is fear. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 39 "Mending Walls" There are times when broken trust like walls need to be mended. It is a process of rebuilding, that over time and with God's help, can be done. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 40 "Putting Jesus on a Diet" We think we find life when we fatten up Jesus and His teachings. Only when we follow Him and them will we find life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 41 "What If He Really Reigned" -by Bill Schwein Are there some ways that the concept of Christ the King still has relevance for us today? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 101: "How Can A Dream Leave Footprints?" - by Bill Schwein As we begin another Yew Year, it may be a good time for us to recall and act on our dreams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 102: "The Year Has Passed. Thank God!" Rooting our lives in regular worship, prayer, and meditation can help us find the joy in living no matter what the year may hold for us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 103: "Knowing and Doing the Right Thing" When we know the right thing to do we can do it when we surrender ourselves to the power of God's grace to get us there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 104: "Should Our Political Leaders Be Christian?"" It is better that our political leaders wear their religions in their hearts than on their shirt sleeves. It is not so important that they be Christian than that they humbly seek to live by the teachings of Christ. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 105: "I've Got a Golden Ticket" -by Rodney Frieden Have you ever wondered what your role as a servant of God should be? This fresh look at an old parable may help answer that question for you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 106: "It Really Is All About Me, Isn't It?" -by Bill Schwein It's no coincidence that illness starts with "i" and wellness starts with 'we.' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 107: "Has Victoria Secret Stolen Our Innocence?" Innocence is stolen from us bit by bit in daily decisions about our children and ourselves that seem to us to be harmless. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 13: The Clinical Study Is In... Prayer Makes No Difference The power of prayer cannot be quantified in scientific enquiry since it is dependent upon us opening ourselves to the imagination of God and letting God work through us and others who may be God's instruments for achieving his purpose. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 14: "A Love that Lasts" There are many kinds of love, but Christian love is the only one that lasts, because it is God driven. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 15: "Try and Remember" When life challenges us we need to try and remember who stands beside us to guide and protect us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 16: "Cheeks, Cloaks, and Loving Our Enemies" Jesus calls us to be nice people in a not very nice world. When in a fallen world this fails, we are called to do justice that is born of humility and tempered by mercy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 17: "Fathers Like Us" Fathers like us are at our best when we are present with our children, affirm them in the process of living, help them set boundaries, and give them the gift of faith. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 18: "Living In Difficult Times" We all live at moments in our life and world in difficult times. Keeping our eyes on a broader vision, not being deluded by whose we are, and rejecting the mass movements that invite easy answers for difficults problems will be our salvation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power To Endure There are so many people who have found beginnings as disciples of Christ but poor endings. It is because they do not endure. Endurance in anything in life, especially as a faithful disciple of Christ, is found in our willingness to sacrifice - to deny ourselves and take up our cross daily. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 20: "If Things Are So Good, Why Do I Feel So Bad?" Life in our country with few exceptions has never been better. Yet a majority of Americans feel it is getting worse because they foucus their attention on only the things they see around them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 21: "The Things That Make Us Feel Better" Our generation has it better than any other in the history of our country, yet a majority of people feel things are getting worse. Fixing our attention on temporary things has done this to us. The latest research in postive psychology, and the scriptures clearly indicate that people feel better about life who are forgiving, loving, and thankful. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 22: "Forgetting What Lies Behind" We may fear memory loss - and as important as it is to remember some important things - there are times when it is best to forget. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 23: "Straining Forward to What Lies Ahead" -by Bill Schwein Because of God's promises, we always have hope, and that can enable us to anticipate the future with confidence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 24: "How A Loss Can Be A Find" There is no loss when the find is better than what we have lost. So, it is with losing ourselves and our families as a top prority and replacing it with our love for Christ - it simply enriches the love we have for others and ourselves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 25: "A World Without Christ" Though too many of our lives in this semi-pagan culture seem to indicate that the world would be better off without Christ, if not for him we would be people witout a country - without a homeland for our souls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 26 "Open to God Open to the World" When we understand that God's imagination exceeds our own, and are truly open to the many ways it can work in this world rather than busy censoring it, we see God and the world in new and wonderful ways. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 27 "I Wish I Was Dead" Depression is something that also assaults the faithul. There are some specific things Christias can do to deal successfully with depression. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 28 "Come Unto Me All You Who Labor ..." -Bill Schwein Jesus invites us to experience some much-needed rest, but also to learn from Him how to have a better attitude about our work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 29 "Why Must the Poor Be With Us?" The poor are defined as any who is in need. The gospel is a mandate to care for those in need no matter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 30 "A Place to Party" Wherever the people of faith gather to listen and talk with God is holy ground. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 31 "Learning How to Party" A vision of what it means to receive the grace of God gives a disciple of Christ the passion to follow. Without it, we approach Christ with ambivalent discipleship. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 32 "A Party With a Vision" We can have a great purpose in life, even dream about it, but without vision it will perish. Vision is the passion that drives our purpose and helps us realize our dreams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 33 "Party With a Purpose" by Bill Schwein The purpose of the party is to bless the lives of the poor, captive, blind and oppressed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 34 "On Being the Life of the Party" Whether we are a pain or a blessing in life is up to us. If we let the grace of Christ transform us then the fruits of His Spirit will make us a blessing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 35 "Afraid to Party" When you are afraid to party with God's grace you are like a reservoir, afraid to share it with others. If you love to celebreate God's grace, you are like a river that let's the grace of God flow through you to others. Which one are you? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Patience: Blessed Are the Meek Meekness is quiet perseverance in the face of brute rage; it is our staunch refusal either to lay down in submission or to rise up in violence. It has persevered in the face of empires and rulers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wholeness: Blessed Are the Peacemakers Peace is not achieved as an afterthought. It comes with a commitment to make it work on a daily basis, and in a very personal way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Contrition: Blessed Are the Merciful Happiness grows out of receiving mercy in order that we might share it with others. Only contrition for our sins will open us to the mercy of God and give us something to share with others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Surrender: Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit To whom or to what have you surrendered your soul? When you recognize that spiritual impoverishment can only be nurtured by the grace of God and not the possessions of life, you know a happiness that the world cannot give nor take away. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living the Easter Hope - by Paul Kern You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. Guest speaker is retired pastor Paul Kern. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Child Shall Lead Us Children offer the leadership for today and tomorrow because they model humility, and are not restricted by the same mental and creative restraints that we have placed in the muck in which we currently find ourselves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 98: "Finding Joy in Mudville at Dawn" “My tears may linger for the night but joy comes in the morning.” Christ has given the gift of salvation so that there is always joy and hope in the morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 100: "A Joy Indescribable" The gift is beyond words - it is indescribable. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 93: "Reasons a Cynic Can Give Thanks" In the midst of cynical times we discover that God is no cynic and is using a few people to make a difference in the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 94: "Living In Between" Living the moments of life in between the joys and challenges successfully requires us to care for our souls, care for our relationships, saying "yes" to what is right , and choosing an attitude of hope. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 95: "Finding Joy in Mudville at the Lost and Found" Real Joy, contrary to what our culture says, is found in serving rather than being served. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 96: "Sing Noel! - A Cantata" A Carol Service by Hal H. Hopson performed by the Chancel Choir and Orchestra. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 97: "Finding Joy in Mudville at the Obstetrician" Sometimes joy does not come to us in the immediate but in the patient waiting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 90: "Movin' On In: Losing What's Familiar" When change faces us in life that is good, the fear of making that change can scare us back to the familiar even when that means our own death. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 91: "Movin' On In: Thanks for the Memories" Memories in leaving can play an important role in who we are and what we shall become. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 92: "Movin' On In: Celebrating the New Digs" Let this new sanctuary be consecrated as a place of prayer, praise, reconciliation and discipleship. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 89: "Movin' On In: When We Don't Want to Move" When we are forced to move or change or adapt to something we did not want we have a choice on whether to face it with despondence and depression or faith and hope. When we choose faith we can look at what surrounds us differently, learn from others who have faced it, study the ways in which we can adapt to it, and respond to what may seem evil to us with good. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 87: "Movin' On In: The Uncertainty of Change" Change is a given in life. It is how we choose to handle it that decides whether it will be successful or not. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 88: "Movin' On In: What to Pack" Wherever we move, whether into a new house of living or house of worship, we need to take with us an attitude of balance lest we miss the joy of the experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 82:"Labor Pains" by Bill Schwein There are times when what we perceive to be the end, may really be a new beginning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 83:"Cleaning Out the Attic" Sometimes we treat our souls like our attics that become so full of stuff (sin, shame, guilt) we break beneath their weight. We can invite God into the attic of our souls and help us clean them out – let the old pass away that everything may become new. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 84:"The Gift of a Fresh Start" Grace is a gift that not only helps us put the past behind, but gives us a gift of a fresh start - the old has passed away, behold everything has become new. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 85:"Grace: It's Not For Sale" Grace is a gift, but it requires humility to receive it. It provides the courage and help for us to change those things in our lives that need to be changed so that we become the people God has created us to be. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 86:"Need a Creed?" by Bill Schwein How would you complete this sentence: "I believe .... "? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 81: "A Biblical World View: Hope" Central to a biblical world view is hope, a dominate theme throughout scripture, the ministry of Jesus, and the resurrection itself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 77: "Keep Your Chin Up" by Bill Schwein Everyone could use an encouraging word. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 78: "Extreme Makeover" When we accept Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord of our lives, we are in for an extreme makeover. It may happen in an instant, or as with so many of us, evolve over a lifetime. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 79: "A Biblical World View: The Fall" Many Christians do not have a biblical world view and thus fail to recognize that while humankind may be good, it falls from God's grace whenever it chooses to be its own god. Such choices are made when we fail to live lives based upon God as the creator, fail the sacred trust to care for the world God has created, fail to love that which God has called very good, and fail to practice a humility that seeks to serve rather than be served. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 80: "A Biblical World View: Despair" A biblical world view acknowledges the despair that arises from the struggle between competing saviors. The great lie of the Opposer is that being our own god is less confining and less heavy than the yoke and burden that goes with accepting and following Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 76: "Anyone for Fish?" by Rodney Frieden Is God so hard to understand? The answer may surprise you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 75: "The Most Significant Question of All Time" Do we live, especially in times of challenge when life is messy, in a way that is faithful to a God who is merciful and just? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 74: "Letters From the Front" We make the mistake of identifying the great front as those overseas where indeed the enemies of peace may rest. However the great front is before us everyday as we do battle with those things that tempt us away from following Jesus Christ. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 73: "... and Some Doubted" Learning to love the questions and gradually living into the answers leads us through doubt to faith. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 72: "Beyond Ordinary" by Rodney Frieden Ever get tired of feeling ordinary? God calls us to be extraordinary, but can we get there? Elijah teaches us through his own example. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 69: "Common Ground" In the midst of the polarization of our age, for people of faith the presence and power of the Holy Spirit can be the common ground upon which we stand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 70: "Chancel Choir Cantata" An end of season celebration of music by our Chancel Choir. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 71: "From Leaping to Limping" Perhaps the single most important thing to do to keep romance in marriages alive is to care for our souls as a gift to the one we love. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 64: "Dancing On A Treadmill" by Bill Schwein God doesn't want our lives to be redundant. God wants our lives to be abundant. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 65: "It is No Secret" The secret to life is no secret at all. The burden Christ gives us of love, honesty, reconciliation and forgiveness is lighter than the confining burden of hatred, deception, division and revenge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 66: "Family Ties" by Jackie Chandler The shortest path to peace in your life is to breath. Breath in the Spirit of God and exhale anxieties and pain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 68: "The Finish Line" To cross the line and finish the race as a disciple of Christ, we need to accept him as Lord and Savior; practice the disciplines necessary to nurture our faith; and ask others to support us in the race. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 62: "Easier or Easter" by Bill Schwein Life is hard. God doesn't make it easier; God gives us Easter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 63: "The Best Gift We Can Give Them" We think we know how to give good gifts to our children, but so many are material in nature. The best gift we can give our children is wisdom which is knowledge joined with understanding and rooted in God. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 61: "The Object of Our Affection" We worship the object of our affections. If it is physical it can be lost, stollen, or even reject us. Worshippiing God frees us from enslavement to self-interest and the fears of life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 59: "Real Religion" Real religion reaches out to the poorest of the poor and is not stained by materialism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 60: "Praying Without Ceasing" Prayer without ceasing means lifting all of our thoughts before God, the good and the bad, beautiful and ugly, so that God can transform our lives into the people God has envisioned. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 58: "When One is Not a Lonley Number" We need solitude in order to make a difference in the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 57: "Give In? I'd Rather Die!" It is in the discipline of submission that we are liberated from the burden of always having to be right. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 56: "Don't Admit a Thing" When we confess our sins, we place our conscience under the compassionate gaze of God whose grace liberates us from the debilitating enslavement to our fears of condemnation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CUMC 55: "Why Give Something Up for Lent" It is in giving something up ex. our time for worship, prayer, reading scripture, etc., that we gain faith strong enought to meet the challenges of life. List