Welcome to LJUMC

Introduction This is week two of Dreaming the Future, a four-week stewardship series built on Earn. Save. Give. by James A. Harnish and Enough by Adam Hamilton. As United Methodists, we promise to support the ministries of the church with our prayers, presence, gifts, service, and witness, and John Wesley’s first rule about money is “gain all you can” (which Harnish updates to “earn”). For most of us, our days are filled with work: jobs, classrooms, households, volunteer shifts. In Luke 16, Jesus tells his…

Introduction This is week one of Dreaming the Future, a four-week stewardship series built on two books by United Methodist pastors: Earn. Save. Give.: Wesley’s Simple Rules for Money by James A. Harnish, and Enough: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and Generosity by Adam Hamilton. As United Methodists, we promise to support the church with our prayers, presence, gifts, service, and witness, and that is the whole of stewardship. Questions about money often start with amounts: how much we earn, how much we owe, how much…

Introduction This is the final week of Knowing Who We Are, six weeks drawn from Rev. Dr. Laceye Warner’s book of the same name. We started with the grace God pours into us, then followed it through connexion, small groups, mission, and scripture. Methodists speak of going on to perfection, growing in grace across a lifetime. People grow in faith slowly, and much of what forms them happens through repetition, in work that seldom feels like formation at the time. In…

Introduction We’re nearing the end of our series, Knowing Who We Are, drawn from the book of the same name by Rev. Dr. Laceye Warner. So far we have explored the grace God pours into us, the connexion we belong to, the small groups of early Methodists, and the neighbors God sends us to serve. This week we turn to the texts that inform and shape us. Wesley called himself a person of one book, writing, “At any price, give me…