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Reflection from June 5, 2022

Acts 2:14Feast of Pentecost and Feast of WeeksExodus 34: 22-23Jesus tells his disciples 40 days before his ascension to go to Jerusalem and wait for the Holy Spirit they gathered there 10 days after his ascension which equals 50 days which is where Pentecost comes from.The day of Pentecost changed people , one example is

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New Artwork Outside the Church

Nick Stoikos is a local artist who, just in time for Pentecost, completed and donated a stone mosaic that is now in-place around the Woodland Beach Church sign at the road. Nick is the great grandnephew of Peter Bryce who preached the first sermon in the church almost one hundred years ago. Nick wanted to

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Message from May 29, 2022

My message this morning expands on a meditation that comes from the writings of Kenneth L. Carder, Bishop of the Mississippi Area of the United Methodist Church, Jackson, Mississippi.  He wrote this in “The Upper Room Disciplines’ 2004”. The readings I am referencing are all about the promise and coming of the Holy...

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Message from May 22, 2022

FIRST THINGS FIRST – Matthew 6:33 The Bible has a lot to say about things that must come first, and today we are going to look at some of them. 1 Kings 17:13 Before seeing the fulfillment of the promise that the flour and oil would not run out the widow woman had to exercise

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