Mt.Zion - Orange United Methodist Charge

Psalm 116:1-2   I love the Lord, for he heard my voice and he heard my cry for mercy.  Because he turned his ear to me,   I will call on him as long as I live.   Why is it that most of us use prayer as an emergency 911 service? We call on God only when life falls apart and there's nowhere to turn. We are almost all guilty of this. How much better it would be to talk to God every day? Daily prayer may not prevent thing from falling apart. But if you start your prayer time thanking God for the blessing you have, you may just feel better the rest of the day having talked to God and know that God is listening. Peace and Blessings - Pastor Tom

WEDNESDAY PRAYER WALKS     I forgot to announce before our on-line worship Sunday that we will RESUME OUR WEDNESDAY PRAYER WALKS this week. We will meet at 8:15am Pavilion #3 as always for a short devotion and prayer and then take a walk remember your mask for the devotion time and to keep appropriate distance.        For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his steps. 1 Peter 2:21         In our response to believing that Jesus is our Lord and Savior, we are call to follow in His footsteps. That means we are to love as Jesus loves and in doing that we will look for injustices and name them, and not only name them but work to correct the injustice that we see. If the injustice is hunger, feed the hungry, if the injustice is poverty give what is needed, and if the injustice is oppression, then work to find the cause of the oppression and...

Mt. Zion - Orange United Methodist Churches “Faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see.” Hebrews 11:1 I often sort of laugh to myself when I hear someone say they are not religious, but they are spiritual. To my thinking if you are spiritual and don’t follow a religion you are wandering without a direction or even a path and your faith is in yourself. On the other hand, if you are religious without being spiritual you are just following rules and your faith is in the rule makers of that denomination. Religious spirituality is faith with a within a path. Not to check off some required boxes or follow step by step instructions, but to seek the way to what the originator of the path sought. In Christianity that is to follow the way of Jesus in loving the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and to love your neighbor as yourself. These are followed by the statement by Jesus that “...

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 It is common for people to say when a loved one dies that “God has taken her/him” or that “God needed another angel”. This is misunderstanding of the nature of God’s Omniscience or Omnipotence (all knowing or all powerful). The understanding that God knows all things and can do all things doesn’t mean that God takes loved ones from us as part of God’s plan. God’s plan for us is that we would love God as God loves us and ultimately live with God for all eternity (God being, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). While God does not take loved one from us God surely receives our loved ones in love as only a creator can love their created. Peace and Blessings Pastor Tom

Happy Memorial Day.  Please take time to remember those brave men and women that have paid the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country.

Ascension Sunday Worship May 24th, 2020 Gospel Luke 24:44-53 Hymn Praise the Lord Who Reigns Above Hymn Open My Eyes, That I May See