by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Mar 26, 2019
Satan offered Jesus power over all the kingdoms of the world. Tempting indeed for a person who was here to proclaim the Kingdom. Yet what Jesus meant by “kingdom” and what Satan meant were two entirely different things. Jesus had to have understood the difference....
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Feb 27, 2019
By now you know that it was a brutal General Conference. Personally, I was in favor of the One Church Plan. I thought it was a gracious acknowledgment of our varying cultural contexts, biblical sensibilities, and deeply held convictions. It didn’t pronounce each...
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Feb 18, 2019
As General Conference meets to decide the future organization of the United Methodist Church, anxiety hangs in the air. Will delegates adopt the One Church Plan, the Connectional Conference Plan or the Traditionalist Plan? Or will they defer...
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Feb 11, 2019
On the evening of December 31, 1999, First UMC of Rawlins Wyoming hosted a Y2K gathering at the church. We prayed, played games, and ate. We danced like it was 1998, as we waited to see what would happen. Would computer networks make the big turn to 2000? Or would...
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Jun 7, 2016
“We’re always on to the next thing,” one pastor friend confided to me. “At least that’s how the people in my Annual Conference see it. We’re ever on to the latest, greatest solution for church growth.” “Do you ever pause and celebrate what you have accomplished?” I...
