Sep 29, 2020 | Alexandria DS Notes, News & Info
“Welcome one another, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.” – Romans 15:7 (New Revised Standard Version) Our theme for charge conferences this year is “See All the People.” We receive this theme from the Virginia annual conference, who is...
Aug 26, 2020 | Alexandria DS Notes, Books, News & Info
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (Bold Type Books, 2016) is a history that is most timely as people across the country are ready and even eager to learn more about a system of racial oppression that has...
Aug 25, 2020 | Alexandria DS Notes, News & Info
“We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over Him. The death He died, He died to sin, once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in...
Jun 16, 2020 | Alexandria DS Notes, News & Info
In a recent statement from the United Methodist Council on Bishops about the scourge of racism, one sentence stands out to me among many important sentences. The sentence that catches my attention comes from Bishop Latrelle Easterling of the Baltimore-Washington Area,...
May 13, 2020 | Alexandria DS Notes, News & Info
“Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in the Lord’s holy place?” (Psalm 24:3) The 2020 pandemic has stretched us in ways we could not have imagined! We have faced challenges with...
Apr 6, 2020 | Alexandria DS Notes, News & Info
“3 The floods have lifted up, O Lord,the floods have lifted up their voice;the floods lift up their roaring.4 More majestic than the thunders of mighty waters,more majestic than the waves of the sea,majestic on high is the Lord.” — Psalm 93:3-4 (NRSV) Holy...
