Myra – Advent Thoughts | Royal Oak First https://www.rofum.org A United Methodist Church Tue, 11 Dec 2018 02:32:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.rofum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cropped-ROF-site-identity-32x32.jpg Myra – Advent Thoughts | Royal Oak First https://www.rofum.org 32 32 Advent 2018 Blog – St Nicholas https://www.rofum.org/advent-2018-blog-st-nicholas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=advent-2018-blog-st-nicholas https://www.rofum.org/advent-2018-blog-st-nicholas/#respond Tue, 11 Dec 2018 02:20:23 +0000 https://www.rofum.org/?p=11220  St Nicholas, the man behind the legend. It is amazing how our creation of the mythical Santa is so engaging

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]]> https://www.rofum.org/advent-2018-blog-star-stop-1/feed/ 0 Advent 2018 Blog -Stop in the Name of Love https://www.rofum.org/advent-2018-blog-stop-in-the-name-of-love/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=advent-2018-blog-stop-in-the-name-of-love https://www.rofum.org/advent-2018-blog-stop-in-the-name-of-love/#respond Tue, 04 Dec 2018 01:57:27 +0000 https://www.rofum.org/?p=10973 It was the sound of the Supremes in 1965.   Stop in the Name of Love, before you break my heart. Even those who weren’t listening to the song in “real time” know those sounds and motions of Diana Ross and the Supremes.   Those out stretched arms, the classic motions of breaking (which looked more like […]

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]]> https://www.rofum.org/advent-2018-blog-stop-in-the-name-of-love/feed/ 0 Advent 2018 Blog – Stop and Listen https://www.rofum.org/advent-blog-day-1-stop-and-listen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=advent-blog-day-1-stop-and-listen https://www.rofum.org/advent-blog-day-1-stop-and-listen/#respond Sun, 02 Dec 2018 01:43:00 +0000 https://www.rofum.org/?p=10970 Before you proceed to Christmas:   Stop, Look and Listen. We begin another Advent season with words that we don’t normally come across this time of year.   Stop, Look and Listen.   It is the theme of this year’s Advent Blog.  These words that we teach our children as they are learning to cross a street somehow […]

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]]> https://www.rofum.org/advent-blog-day-1-stop-and-listen/feed/ 0 Gifted https://www.rofum.org/gifted/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gifted https://www.rofum.org/gifted/#respond Fri, 09 Mar 2018 20:42:42 +0000 https://www.rofum.org/?p=8388 Dear Friends, This week a group from our church staff went on a field trip. We went to watch and learn from a United Methodist church in Kansas City, Missouri. Like Royal Oak First, Good Shepherd in Kansas City is a fast-growing church. It was great to meet their staff and talk about how we […]

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]]> https://www.rofum.org/gifted/feed/ 0 Advent Blog Day 18 – One Good Gust Away https://www.rofum.org/advent-blog-day-14-simply-what-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=advent-blog-day-14-simply-what-2 https://www.rofum.org/advent-blog-day-14-simply-what-2/#respond Fri, 22 Dec 2017 01:50:27 +0000 https://www.rofum.org/?p=8064 I am in LA  on business and found an unexpected California Christmas.   At the breakfast bar at my hotel, I was waiting for my organic carrot-ginger juice and cappuccino (when in Rome) when a man walked in dressed in full firefighting gear.  He was grabbing a cup of coffee and a bagel before heading up […]

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]]> https://www.rofum.org/advent-blog-day-14-simply-what-2/feed/ 0 Advent Blog Day 14 – Simply What? https://www.rofum.org/advent-blog-day-14-simply-what/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=advent-blog-day-14-simply-what https://www.rofum.org/advent-blog-day-14-simply-what/#respond Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:59:26 +0000 https://www.rofum.org/?p=8035 I began this Advent Blog two weeks ago, with a paper chain filled with Bible verses and small tasks, and with the theme “Simply Christmas”. And now I ask myself…,”so how’s that workin for ya?” Simply Christmas; a more simple Christmas….??? As I type this, I can see just over my computer a large stack […]

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]]> https://www.rofum.org/advent-blog-day-14-simply-what/feed/ 0 Advent Blog Day 13 Opening the Envelope https://www.rofum.org/advent-blog-day-13-opening-the-envelope/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=advent-blog-day-13-opening-the-envelope https://www.rofum.org/advent-blog-day-13-opening-the-envelope/#respond Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:52:00 +0000 https://www.rofum.org/?p=8032 On Wednesday I woke up at what my brother-in-law calls “0 dark thirty” for a business trip to Seattle. I had plugged my computer in to make sure I had a good charge for the five hour flight, a great time for writing blogs and sermons. I tossed the charging cords into my suitcase but […]

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]]> https://www.rofum.org/advent-blog-day-13-opening-the-envelope/feed/ 0 Advent Blog Day 12 – All God’s Creatures https://www.rofum.org/advent-blog-day-10-reflecting-the-light-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=advent-blog-day-10-reflecting-the-light-2 https://www.rofum.org/advent-blog-day-10-reflecting-the-light-2/#respond Wed, 13 Dec 2017 23:37:06 +0000 https://www.rofum.org/?p=8022 Remember the “moon on the breast of the new fallen snow”  from Monday night?  A couple of hours into the snowfall my dogs start going crazy and my daughter told me to look out of the windrow.  Prancing down the middle of the street in the “lustre of midday”  was a coyote.  You would have […]

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