Chris Bishop

In the age of twitter, how would you proclaim the Good News with only 140 characters?  Redirecting to external links doesn’t count.  Today the amount of written material and media is astounding.  Most of it is just background noise to us.  It is hard to have something that passes through our filters and then makes [...]

There are events, services and intentional efforts that we make to connect with the students in the community who are not part f our ministries.  The hope would be to present the Gospel, or offer an experience that will make this community want to come back and eventually be a part of the ministry.  There [...]

In our student ministry we are beginning a series called “Home” from now until Christmas.  The series is all about the prodigal son parable and where we fit in the story and where God is when we go off the ranch.  With this I thought that I would shape the next couple of Faith Lab [...]

A couple of weeks ago we had our ecumenical service for thanksgiving. This year we hosted the service at MUMC. It was a great time in part because I had to do little when the serivce came about. I had to make a number of the arrangements before the service, but when the time came [...]

You know at the school dance the people that lean up against the wall with no one to dance with.  That was me, but I like to think of my leaning as a safeguard against the walls falling down.  I was a wallflower.  I don’t dance, and I was perfectly content just taking in the [...]

As you look around you will being to see the signs beginning to crop up with slashed prices, announcements of big savings, markdowns of up to 80% off.  These are great deals they are things that entice us to buy goods that we might be thinking about or that we don’t really need at all, [...]

If you look at newspaper headlines on the front page you will notice that font size makes a big difference on how important the paper feels a story is.  After all the larger the headline, the less room for other stories on the page.  The things deemed less important thus get a smaller font. We [...]