Pastor Paul Harris
A Note From Pastor Paul & Family
Greetings Church Family, Our family wishes to thank you all for your prayers and kind thoughts during a season of COVID19 in our...
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Emmett Thomason
- Dec 2, 2022
- 1 min
United Methodist Men's Clothing Drive
The United Methodist Men are collecting men’s clothing for the Clothes Closet. The Clothes Closet serves men experiencing homelessness....
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Pastor Paul Harris
- Dec 2, 2022
- 1 min
The Season of Advent
Welcome to the season of Advent! Come, O Come Emmanuel. Be in us the light of the world so that our lives and the lives of those we...
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Pastor Paul Harris
- Nov 21, 2022
- 2 min
Happy Thanksgiving
When our family gathers for Thanksgiving, you can be sure there will be a feast! For years, Laura and I along with Ben would go to...
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Pastor Paul Harris
- Nov 18, 2022
- 2 min
Christ the King/Reign of Christ Sunday
Greetings friends, This Sunday we worship God and recognize a special day in the Christian calendar: The Reign of Christ or Christ the...
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Kim Carroll
- Nov 18, 2022
- 3 min
Structure of the United Methodist Church
Today the United Methodist Church is a worldwide connection of more than 12 million members in Africa, Asia, Europe and the United...
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Kim Carroll
- Nov 11, 2022
- 3 min
Our Theological Task: The Wesleyan Quadrilateral
Did you know that it was John Wesley who first penned the phrase “Agree to Disagree”? In a eulogy for his friend, and sometimes...
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Pastor Paul Harris
- Nov 11, 2022
- 2 min
AMAZING THINGS CAN HAPPEN AT THE DEER LEASE
Hi friends Earlier this week with my Zoom small group Along the Way with Pastor Paul, we studied the miracle of Jesus and the Feeding of...
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Kim Carroll
- Nov 4, 2022
- 3 min
Means of Grace
United Methodists see faith as inseparable from good works “as love of God is always linked with love of neighbor, a passion for justice,...
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Kim Carroll
- Oct 28, 2022
- 3 min
Wesleyan Emphasis on Grace
Methodism did not break from the Church of England over theological or doctrinal differences. Our distinctiveness as United Methodists...
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Kim Carroll
- Oct 18, 2022
- 3 min
Methodism Comes to America
Members of Methodist societies from England and Ireland traveled to America and formed new Methodist groups in Maryland, New York and...
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Kim Carroll
- Oct 13, 2022
- 2 min
Methodism and Social Reform in England
Soon after the Aldersgate experience, where John Wesley’s heart was strangely warmed, he began preaching in the fields to those who did...
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Kim Carroll
- Oct 7, 2022
- 3 min
Our Methodist Roots
The founder of the Methodist Movement, John Wesley, was born in 1703 to Samuel and Susanna Wesley, in Epworth, where his father was...
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Pastor Paul Harris
- Sep 30, 2022
- 2 min
ON OUR BETTER DAYS
... we live into our faithfulness and God provides the fruitfulness... in our lives, in our relationships, in our ministries, in all that...
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Pastor Paul Harris
- Sep 22, 2022
- 2 min
A Change of Seasons, Please!
I like to follow the Facebook Group called Maine Fall Foliage. Recent photos shared in that social media group indicate that the leaf...
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Pastor Paul Harris
- Sep 15, 2022
- 1 min
EVERLASTING
A few years ago, one of my friends in a congregation captured some of the words of one of my sermons and wrote them down in this graphic....
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Pastor Paul Harris
- Sep 8, 2022
- 1 min
STABILITY
For 70 years, Queen Elizabeth II provided the British Commonwealth with what it needed most - stability. With the longest tenure as...
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Pastor Paul Harris
- Sep 2, 2022
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Coffee With Pastor
Hi friends, Sunday mornings at Manchaca UMC during the month of September, Pastor Paul will be at the Coffee Cafe area ready to Welcome...
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Pastor Paul Harris
- Aug 26, 2022
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New Every Morning
One of my favorite memories of an experience of God’s presence and God’s Creation glory is captured in this photograph. It was a family...
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Pastor Paul Harris
- Aug 18, 2022
- 3 min
TRAILRIDERS WALL
In the Pecos Wilderness east of Santa Fe, New Mexico there is a very special place. I have probably written numerous posts before about...
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