God Empty Me, Fill Me With You

Devotional, Rev. John Wayne McMann

“A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain…This is the...

Say “Yes” to the Holy Spirit

Devotional

Last week, we looked at Acts and the gift of the Holy Spirit that equipped the disciples to begin building Christ’s church as “witnesses to the ends of the earth”.  We too are called to be witnesses in the world, and like the disciples, we are gifted by the Holy...

Discipleship

Devotional

Early in the Methodist movement, to be a Methodist really did not have much to do with worship attendance and had everything to do with being in a class meeting and band group. The Wesley’s understood the importance of small groups when it comes to scriptural...
Baptism

Baptism

Devotional, Rev. John Wayne McMann

When I was 23 years old, I just received my first position in full time ministry as the youth and young adult director at First United Methodist Church in Bryan, Texas. I probably had not been in this position for more than a week when my father called me with a great...