Worship
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Re: Pastors and Churches Endorsing Candidates
Posted same day on my Facebook Page I will speak briefly on the ability for houses of worship/religious leaders to now endorse candidates and move on. According to the report, when a house of worship “in good faith speaks to its congregation, through its customary channels of communication on matters of faith in connection with Continue reading
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Preaching on Sunday July 6th, 2025
This post was originally posted on my Facebook the Sunday Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law. I’m not preaching today, I’m off until tomorrow. But if I were leading worship, I would do three things, regardless of what I had planned. First, I would speak to the continuous natural disasters (Texas Continue reading
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General Conference: Opening Worship
This was a whirlwind first day of General Conference. I was immediately greeted by a ton of folks from around the denomination. As opening worship began, we started with not John or Charles Wesley, but a song with the tune for Charles Wesley’s grandson, Samuel Sebastian Wesley. The hymn, “The Church’s One Foundation,” was originally Continue reading
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On Rural Worship: Let People Talk
I’ve been thinking about worship in the rural church lately(since I preach weekly, of course, but also because of a couple projects I’m working on). Worship is one the strangest zones to inhabit. The disagreements over music, sermons, the color of the bulletin, the order of worship, and everything else all flair from time to Continue reading
Jonathan LeMaster-Smith 