Dr. F. B. Meyer taught the missionary Amy Carmichael to pray. The simple and impactful method kept God at the center of her life all the time: “Amy Carmichael developed many variations of that prayer. When meeting someone she didn’t like, she would silently pray, “Thy love, Lord.” In a crisis, she’d whisper, “Thy help, Lord,” or “Thy wisdom, Lord.” Sometimes when I’m worried, I just lift my heart ...  Read More

Have you ever thought about the idea of an Earnest prayer? There’s a lot in scripture about praying earnestly. When we pray earnestly, we’re in the company of many incredible people–Job, Jairus, Elijah, Jesus.James writes about the importance of earnest prayer within a Christian community; he says: “Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest pray...  Read More

The Enterprise Museum hosted a student art exhibit during the month of May which featured artwork created by students from the Legacy Scholars Academy on the Enterprise campus of the Florida United Methodist Children's Home. The artwork by artists from sixth through twelfth grade featured traditional art mediums, such as watercolor and acrylic paintings, as well as 3D sculptures and multimedia ins...  Read More

We move on to Rule 4 this week: Pray! This is an easy rule to remember but isn’t as easy to do. “The Israelites were in crisis in Exodus 14, and their seaside cry was urgent, united, unfeigned, but unbelieving.” –The Red Sea Rules, by Robert J. Morgan (Rule 4)If we don’t believe that God will deliver us from our situation, then it doesn’t matter how much we cry out in urgency, and as a united grou...  Read More

God will always look out for us. That’s his promise when we accept his grace and power. He gives us protection so that no matter what, we can stand strong against whatever is thrown our way. Our responsibility is not to have the strength to make it through but to have the strength to rely on God. Our strength can never withstand what the world throws our way, but God is always strong enough. Peter...  Read More

I always love to welcome new members into the church family. This past Sunday, we got to welcome Tommy and Karen, and their daughter Haley! We've now welcomed 3 generations of this family. A few weeks ago, we welcomed the Andersen Family into membership. Courtney who we welcomed a few weeks ago, is also Tommy and Karen's daughter.Tommy, Karen and Haley come to us from another United Methodist...  Read More

If there’s one thing you take away this week, it’s where you’re looking when you are tempted or spiritually attacked. Our temptation is to focus on our enemy and know where the attack is coming from, but by doing so, we pull our focus from God.Our devotion puts it this way: “But we always make a mistake when we acknowledge the Lord and keep our eyes on Satan. Far better to acknowledge the devil wh...  Read More

Paul writes a lot about Satan in his letter. If you read this week’s devotion, you’ll see a list of passages that point to Paul referencing Satan’s hand in the sins of people within the church and the community. Specifically, in Ephesians, he says: “For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this da...  Read More

We don’t talk about much in today’s church–the evil one. Think about it for a moment. We usually don’t even call him the Devil but call him the evil one. It’s like saying his name is bad. It’s like in Harry Potter, how the world is afraid to say Lord Voldemort‘s name. People respond quickly and fearfully whenever Harry says, “Don’t say his name.” They call him “You Know Who” or “He Who Must Not Be...  Read More

Today we start the third rule. Even after God proved that Egypt’s gods couldn’t touch Israel, and he was bigger and stronger than they were with his show of power through the 10 plagues, Pharaoh still tried to regain his property. In the same way, Satan doesn’t give up his power on Earth easily. When we give our lives over to God, Satan fights to get us back. Our devotion says: "But Satan doesn’t ...  Read More

We close out this week's devotions from the Book of Common Prayer back in the book of Psalms. This Psalm is powerful when life is going every wrong way possible or when you feel like you've failed and there's no way to recover. If you need to cry to God, you can pray through this Psalm and feel much better. For today's sake, we will reflect on just a few verses. But I keep praying to you, Lord,hop...  Read More

Please Pardon Our Dust!  While we make some exciting changes to our children's spaces.  We promise while our spaces might look a bit rougher than usual while we work on these changes, they will always be safe.A few weeks ago, Pastor Faith announced that we had been approved  for a grant we applied for back in February.  This grant is giving us funding  to start a program within our children's mini...  Read More