Central UMC Blog
Beyond Our Walls Fall 2019
I Am So Confused About This Tithing Thing
My wife and I started attending Central UMC 30 years ago, which was a few months after we got married. I was in graduate school and working at an internship and she was substitute teaching. We did not have very much money. A night out for dinner for us, which was rare, was...
You Are Chosen
The past two weekends I had the opportunity to go to Harriet, Arkansas and teach a few hundred junior high students that they were chosen by God. It was an incredible weekend where we saw God do some incredible things, but, reminding junior high students that they are chosen by God isn’t...
Special to Us
Occasionally, there are those people who get into your heart. Joyce was one of those people. Joyce Lynn George passed on into the loving arms of our Lord on August 30, 2019, in Fayetteville, after succumbing to injuries sustained from a car wreck. She was 59. Her family asked that I...
The Review - October 2019
Interested in what’s been going on here at Central? Our brand new Quarterly Report, The Review, is now here! It's undergone a bit of a format change but it's the same old Review that you know and love, just in a new place! In our latest Review, you can read Dr. Jan Davis' article...
Longing for Awakening
“Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you”—Ephesians 5:14, NIV. A couple of years ago, Dr. Jan Davis and I were invited to be a part of the Seedbed New Room Summit at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. One of the outcomes of this...
Just Ask
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Editors Note: How often do we just rush out of church on a Sunday, in a hurry to get on with our day? We are a part of the best community we could wish for but often we are too busy to stop and savor it. For some of us it's hard to step out of our comfort zone and begin...
A Man Out of Balance
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Saul was a persecutor of early Christians until Jesus confronted him on the road to Damascus. Jesus commanded and encouraged Paul to be a witness to Jews and Gentiles that eternal life and salvation was through belief in the resurrected Jesus and the triune nature of God the Father, God the Son...
Never Give Up
When contemplating the future of The United Methodist Church, we all find ourselves asking a couple questions: How did we get to this point? Why is the theological gap so wide? My answers take me back to an experience in my own life that propelled me on this journey of awareness and struggle...