Central UMC Blog

[embed]https://vimeo.com/246912239[/embed] On Sunday, January 7, you're invited to join us for our new sermon series The Invitation!

It has been an amazing year here at Central and we can't wait to see what God has in store for 2018! Please take a moment to watch this short video celebrating all that has happened over the year and to hear from our Senior Pastor Dr. Jan Davis. [embed]http://https://vimeo.com/247196801[/embed]...

Christmas, if we are being honest, can be both a time of joy and longing. Advent reminds us that, like the Jews awaiting their savior, we are in the time between. A great hope is before us, but it is not here yet. We know and believe in the promise of unending, joyful life, but life presently is...

06In the new Morning Manna service, held at Genesis during the Sunday breakfast time, we are blessed beyond measure to be seeing healings, miracles, and are truly thankful to God our Father for the life changes we are witnessing.As a worship leader, Trent Chudej, tenderly played the last chords...

What are you hoping for this Christmas? The season of Advent is the season of hope. We live in a world desperate for hope. Advent (the four Sundays before Christmas) prepares us for the celebration of the true meaning of Christmas the coming of Jesus Christ. Advent is a time of expectancy when...

As some of you already know, I am passionate about racial reconciliation, specifically within the church, and I wanted to start a conversation about what it is and what it could be. However, I wanted to avoid the tension of all the politically charged jargon already in existence. I wanted to...

I was thumbing through the gospel of John looking for a particular verse. But before I got to it, these words of Jesus leapt straight from the page and into my heart: Let nothing be wasted (John 6:12). I stopped to read the full passage: Jesus was referring to the leftover pieces of bread and...

I am a sucker for personality tests. Whether it is Myers-Briggs, Enneagram, or Birkman, I know my type and am probably a little too proud of it. This might be because personality tests are effective at building up strengths and softening the blow of weaknesses, or it may be because my...

In the 5th chapter of the Gospel of John, Jesus encounters a man who’s been suffering for 38 years and asks him if he wants to be healed. It seems like the answer to the offer of being healed would always be an obvious, immediate, emphatic “Yes!” - but the question can reveal...

God has given each of us seeds to sow into the lives of others. In the dry, hard ground of the spiritually empty world around us, Christians have a crop to produce – a harvest for God. We must sow seeds. A seed is such a small thing. When we act as seed sowers, we may not feel that we are...