Tag: Methodist Church

From resolution to relationship – Renewing the Methodist Covenant Prayer

Purple and pink sky at sunrise with soft rays of light. On the right, a black silhouette of a person kneeling in prayer on a hillside. Overlaid text reads: “I am no longer my own but yours!” with a smaller caption beneath: 'Methodist Covenant Prayer.'

THIS REFLECTION began as a sermon preached at a Methodist Covenant Service. I’ve adapted it here for anyone who has ever struggled with resolutions, commitments, or prayers that ask more of us than we feel able to give. At its heart is a simple conviction: covenant begins with God, not with us.

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Where is God when it all goes wrong? – A Bible Month reflection on Joseph’s story from the book of Genesis

This is a question that Joseph, hero of our faith, might have asked himself. Joseph, a son of Jacob, the last of Israel’s ancient patriarchs, is at the centre of a 4,000-year-old family drama. It’s a story of favouritism, jealousy, hatred, temptation, suffering and reconciliation.
Perhaps this is a situation with which you can identify! But the Joseph story is bigger than that.

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