Chris Bishop

What would it take for you to be willing to stake your reputation on the worship experience that you attend?  Would you be willing to take the risk and invite a friend who doesn’t have a faith community to come and see the worship that you go to?  What would they think? Who would welcome [...]

Through the past couple of days it seems like there has been 9000 things that have impacted MUMC in a powerful way and caused us to ask questions. I was getting ready for youth group this week and thought about all of the things that my kids and their families are in the middle of [...]

So I have been reading 1 Samuel 2. This is the place where Eli (the priest) has a couple of bad sons that are running amuck around the town. His sons were not only sinning against other people but against God. Their actions the fell upon the shoulders of their father who’s heritage wouldn’t continue [...]

I have been reading still more of Shane Claiborne.  I have finally finished “Becoming the Answer To Our Prayers.”  I love his perspective.  One of the things that struck me wile reading was something that he actually said in another one of his books.  He asks the question if we have created a way of [...]

Shovels, bulldozers and oil drilling When you study scripture how do you go about it? Shovel Slinger: Fling open your Bible, put a finger on a verse (get a scoop of dirt), read it, pray a bit done. You might wonder why God wasn’t very visible in the story that you read about the suffering [...]

I have a huge stack of reading right now on my desk. I am reading one right now called “Unlearning Church”. I the first chapter Michael Slaughter is talking about what thing the church has as a “radical product”. He says that revolutionary people are this product of the church. Now this sounds great!! Especially [...]

What is Prayer? Seems an easy enough question, but when we get down to it, “IT” becomes something that is harder to define than we would think. On all saint’s weekend this is what our later looked like at church.  We lit candles as an act of living prayer for those we have lost in [...]