http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/ FUMC Birmingham, Michigan Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:36:49 GMT jharnish http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/157 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/157 Someone once said "The only one who likes change is a wet baby", and I think my computer would agree. As I told you last week, we are moving "Monday Memo" Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:36:22 GMT jharnish http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/156 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/156 Just to alert you in advance..we are moving the "Monday Memo" from "yahoogroups" to our own server at First United Methodist Church. This will give us more Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:30:11 GMT jharnish http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/155 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/155 Bring on the below freezing temperatures and the water on my fish pond freezes solid as a rock! I left the pump running, so even through the coldest weather, Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:01:16 GMT jharnish http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/154 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/154 Ok, I thought I was handling this "Grandfather" thing really well. Of course, my "cup overflowed" and I was literally speechless the first time I held that Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:38:56 GMT jharnish http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/153 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/153 Here we are, at the dawn of this wonderful day! I just love it! Folks say "Wow, this must be a busy time for you preachers", and of course, they are right. Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:48:47 GMT jharnish http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/152 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/152 Here is a Memo worth passing on, even if it isn't Monday. So many of our folks are so generous in so many ways, and through our Hunger Ministry, you are Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:07:51 GMT jharnish http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/151 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/151 How appropriate that yesterday we would be singing the plaintive and beautiful: In the bleak mid-winter, frosty winds made moan, Earth was hard as iron, water Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:16:17 GMT jharnish http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/150 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/150 One of the themes of Advent that doesn't get alot of attention is the theme of the Second Advent, the Second Coming, the Return of Christ. It's there, of Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:58:54 GMT jharnish http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/149 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/149 I can't say I remember my first Christmas. It was 1947 in a small house in a small town in Western Pennsylvania which is known only to me in a faded black and Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:19:24 GMT jharnish http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/148 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/148 If this is Monday, it must be "Advent By Candlelight" and if today is "Advent By Candlelight", it means I'll be serving in "Advent By Parking Lot Light". The Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:06:41 GMT jharnish http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/147 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/147 Well, this morning my friend Al Tompkins sent out his memo for journalists with suggestions on how to make Thanksgiving Interactive. For example, he suggests Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:59:09 GMT jharnish http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/146 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/146 Yesterday was an incredible day at First Church! It was a joy to have Will Cantrell, our first Duke intern, returning to visit and to know that in some small Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:21:43 GMT jharnish http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/145 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/145 I've been reading Jeff Petherick's personal faith story titled "Wavelength: Tuning in to God's Voice in a World of Static". Jeff is a son of our congregation Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:53:45 GMT jharnish http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/144 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/144 Sunday evening, after a full and glorious "Lord's Day", 20 members of your staff piled into the vans and headed up north for a retreat. We are staying at my Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:03:08 GMT jharnish http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/143 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUMCBirmingham-MondayMemo/message/143 I seldom link these weekly epistles to the one that went before because of my own doubts about whether anyone would remember what I said last week and because