Central UMC Blog

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...

I have a message to bring to you. It is contrary to what you are hearing in the world today.    Abortion hurts.      I tell you this not from stories I’ve heard from other women but by my own abortion trauma. Having an abortion was a decision...

I wish you could know me.And still be my friend.   I’m a middle-aged gay man who has been in the closet for the last thirty-five years—divorced, with a grown child. I attend church every Sunday at Central. I don’t sit in the shadows. One or two of the pastors might...

The question I get asked the most is, how can you be Jewish and believe in Jesus? If a black person chooses to follow Christ, do they stop being black? Of course not. This goes with being Messianic. My father is Jewish and my mother is not. My great - grandmother died in Auschwitz during the...

I have a confession to make. I say I’m a Christian but haven’t been to church in over a year. I say I’m a Christian but haven’t really prayed for months. I say I’m a Christian but can’t remember the last time I opened my Bible. How did I get here? I...

Hey faith family, can we talk? No, I mean really talk. Let’s be real, each week we come onto this campus for community. But there’s a natural tendency to hold each other at arm’s length. What brings people closer together? Real conversation, the kind of sharing that’s...

Dear Church, Have you ever tuned out (or even stayed home) when the sermon focus was tithing? It can be easy to think that in a congregation the size of Central “everyone else” is giving so my portion surely won’t be missed. But according to the Barna Group, only 5% of...