Whoever you are, whatever your condition, wherever you are on your spiritual journey, you are a beloved child of God, and without exception, you are welcome here. Roberts Park United Methodist Church embraces the wider Methodist understanding that God’s grace is given to all. We are committed to creating a community of grace where all […]
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November 3rd is our ‘Heritage Sunday’ this year and the final Sunday of the stewardship program, All Saints Sunday and receiving new members into the church. This is the day when we also want to honor those who have been members of Roberts Park for 50 years or more. Roberts Park is fortunate to have […]
Read moreThe Governing Board recently spent time on a retreat considering the future of Roberts Park in light of the decisions taken at the 2019 General Conference regarding human sexuality. The Governing Board concluded that it would like to recommend to the broader church congregation that Roberts Park UMC considers becoming a member of the Reconciling […]
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It is a strange twist of fate that, on the same date that Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is in effect accused by the British Supreme Court of breaching the UK constitution in seeking to restrict the British Parliament’s ability to do its duty in scrutinizing the work of the government […]
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As the western world debates the question of climate change, the evidence of change in the form of more extreme weather is all around us. Tropical Storm Barry that hit New Orleans in July, the recent 7.1 earthquakes in Ridgecrest California, Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas and the Florida and North Carolina coast, and now […]
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There a times in life that cause us to stop and suddenly realize just how much we have to celebrate, the many gifts and blessings we have that God has so freely given to us. Yes these moments are all too rare and more often or not our lives are being driven by the demands […]
Read moreYou have surely heard news of wildfires in the Amazon, but a recent CNN article reported that there are 50 different wildfires burning in 12 different states in the US. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, Alaska is battling eight wildfires; Texas 7; Arizona and Idaho six each; Montana and Utah five each; Oregon […]
Read moreLast Saturday was a somber day for the Colts quarterback Andrew Luck as he announced his retirement from the NFL and a bad day for the Colts team in general. Some of the fans at the game vented their feelings in age-old fashion by booing Andrew as he left the field for what would be […]
Read moreIf someone asked you to give them another word for ‘God’ you could use the word ‘presence’ for that is what God is. When Moses asked Yahweh his name, Yahweh replied ‘I am who I am’ and this means ‘I am present.’ God is really saying ‘I shall be there for you.’ God is intimately […]
Read moreA recent study in the American Psychologist suggests that there are more Good Samaritans out there than we might think. Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard, a sociologist from the University of Copenhagen, recently led a research team looking at what is often called, ‘the bystander effect.’ If you are not familiar with it, that is the idea […]
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