Making Waves

Good morning! If this is your first time with us here at Making Waves welcome, and if you are joining us again, welcome back. For any of you that haven’t been with us, we have been doing a series called Who Do You Think You Are? It’s a series that I have been doing at Pelham United Methodist Church all about those three little words after the word, “Pelham” in our title. What does it mean to be a United Methodist Church? What is it that separates us from our peers in Christianity? The first week we discussed what Grace was and what it symbolizes to us in Wesleyan tradition. Last week, we discussed who Jesus was in our lives and how He related to atonement.  Yummy. I'm sure many of you are curious as to why I have titled this message as having some relation to doughnuts... I promise all will become clear if you hang on with me until the end! This week we are going to turn to the Word for the next step in our spiritual lives: discipleship. If you’ll join me, I am going t

It’s been a great week. I got the chance to go to our Annual Conference for Western North Carolina Conference in Lake Junaluska, NC. It was a week with lots of voting (not necessarily my favorite part), good food (always a good part) and fellowship amongst many of our Christian leaders in the NC area (my personal favorite part). I was especially thankful, since my father is also a pastor in the WNCC and Logan and I were invited to lodge with him and my stepmother for the week. It was a wonderful way to spend Father’s Day. Speaking of Father's Day, I’d like to begin this morning with a little Father’s Day story. There were four expectant fathers who were in a Minneapolis hospital waiting room, while their wives were in labor. The nurse tells the first man, "Congratulations! You're the father of twins!" "What a coincidence!" The man said, "I work for the Minnesota Twins baseball team!" The nurse returns and tells the second ma

Welcome to Making Waves! This blog will be used as a resource for any of you that wish to continue diving into the Word after the sermon on Sunday morning, or for those unable to attend Pelham UMC that wish to still read the sermon given on the previous Sunday.  Logan and I and both of our families have been so appreciative of the warm welcome we’ve received here at Pelham. It’s been a fun two weeks of getting accustomed to the town around here. I can say that I believe I have found and tried all of the Mexican food venues around town. If there’s one thing you need to know about me, it’s that I desperately love Mexican food. This is one topic I could talk about for hours. Before I get off on any more of a tangent, let’s dive into the Word. These are the words of Jesus, during one of his sermons.             12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my f