The Christmas Purpose: to Point Us to Jesus and to Our Holistic Salvation By Senior Bishop Lawrence Reddick Dear CME Family: We awake every December 25th to be reminded that God is sovereign – especially over God’s creation, but beyond that creation into eternity. In many of our congregations, for the last four […]
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I vote because I believe this person or that person will do his or her best to be fair and just, has the capacity to do a credible job in the office, and will be an advocate of laws that help society while also realizing that there is a place for mercy.
Visiting churches is one thing I like to do – especially on Sunday morning. Usually I arrive a few minutes late, but I don’t like to be more than 30 minutes late.
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The 2022 CME Annual Conference Schedules for Texas Dear Brothers and Sisters of the Eighth Episcopal District:Today is Saturday, April 23, 2022. On Thursday afternoon we concluded the 2022 Session of the Jamaica Annual Conference at the Good News CME Church in the Fort Charles community, in St. Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica. We met for two
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Dear CME Family: For the life of me, I cannot understand or explain why people, logically, refuse the COVID vaccinations (except for beliefs that it may be harmful to their health). “For the life of me …” Those words do not form a sentence, but a phrase that may not say to you what it says to
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“And Judah said, ‘The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed,
and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.”
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This first issue of the Eighth Episcopal District newsletter highlights our nine presiding elders within the State of Texas. I’ll venture to share this opinion: the most important link in the connectional operations of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is the office of presiding elder. Yes, that’s my opinion. I don’t ask you to
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the new President needs us as citizens to listen to his voice and follow his leadership, and that he needs us to keep him lifted in prayer.
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Dear CME Family:
Disinformation, divisiveness and deception have marked the four years of the Trump Administration and at least the year preceding it as a campaign. What we saw play out at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 was an outgrowth of that divisive and deceptive rhetoric that had been fueled by at least four years of disinformation. When by the second day of that Administration, the phrase “alternative facts” began to be spoken by the official spokesperson, we should have been alerted to worse things coming.
A SEASON TO REMEMBER AND ACT “To everything there is a season ….” Ecclesiastes 3:1 (KJV) By Senior Bishop Lawrence Reddick Dear CME Family: Four years ago, about this time, I wrote President-Elect Donald Trump to congratulate him on his election as the 45th President of the United States of America, and to pledge to
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