Free to Recover
Before Bedford Free Methodist Church launched a Celebrate Recovery program last year, church leaders didn’t have to look far to find a person with the right experience to help start and lead the...
View ArticleBook Reveals Broadcaster’s Influence
E. Harold “Hal” Munn Jr. was a broadcasting pioneer who helped launch cable television and consulted with 800 radio stations. He fought racist opposition and successfully persuaded the Federal...
View ArticleFreedom Isn’t Free
The United States of America celebrated 240 years of freedom last month — nearly a quarter of a millennium of freedom as a country. This issue of Light + Life Magazine is dedicated to the freedoms of...
View ArticleClinic Offers Hope for Immigrants
Immigrants are often the victims of scams when they’re seeking help for legal services such as applying for citizenship, work permits or family visas. Even when the service provider is legitimate, the...
View ArticleRichly Blessed
I ’m not really one to follow instructions. Anyone who knows me will confirm it. Following instructions is difficult for me because I am inclined toward doing as I please. The friction comes when I am...
View ArticleCheerful Givers
It’s time to give our offering!” At this announcement, Indianapolis First Free Methodist Church cheers — complete with clapping, hollering and laughing. This tradition has not always been our history,...
View ArticleNoble, Beautiful and Excellent
When Ed Byers received the Medal of Honor in February, I was truly proud — because he’s my brother-in-law! As part of the Navy’s SEAL Team 6, Ed had carried out a dramatic rescue of an American doctor...
View ArticleGive Generously and Responsibly
God is an incredibly generous giver! “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son…” (John 3:16). God loves the world, the whole world! Therefore, He gives of Himself; He gives...
View ArticleOffering-Worship
With Tongue in Cheek Back in the day, you always got a “bulletin” as you entered the sanctuary. I don’t know why they ever called it a “bulletin.” I googled it and just got more confused. So I’ve now...
View ArticleGratitude and Grace
My family and friends may have stopped asking me to say grace at meals. They don’t want to get me started, because I pray too long. It’s not really my fault. I’ve experienced too much. In the first...
View ArticleGiving, Trusting and Blessing
Norman and Arlene Leenhouts have been married 61 years. Four years into their marriage, they began tithing — giving at least 10 percent of their income back to God — and their finances didn’t suffer....
View Article2 QUESTIONS EVERY CHRISTIAN SHOULD ASK
It began with two simple questions. Fifteen years ago, my husband was a well-respected physician at the top of his career. He loved taking care of patients, and I loved caring for our two children,...
View ArticleMADE IN HIS IMAGE
We are made in God’s image. Genesis 1:26–27 contains this in clear language, not once or twice, but four times. “Let us make mankind in our image. . .” (v.26). “So God created mankind in his own image,...
View ArticleACTION SOLUTIONS FOR THE PLANET
Free Methodists have long known the importance of taking action when it comes time to care for the poor. We have historically thrived in embracing pragmatic steps to aid the poor and oppressed. The...
View ArticleA CREATIVE GIFT
My 8-year-old son loves to give gifts. He’ll often run to his room and return a few minutes later with a container full of some of his favorite things. He hides it behind his back and says, “I have a...
View ArticleA NEW THING
Three Psalms begin with “Sing to the Lord a new song” (96, 98, and 149). A new song! How exciting is that? We are capable of seeing that which is around us, delving into that which is within us, and...
View ArticleA New Era Dawns in Mexico
The Free Methodist Church in Mexico formed a provisional general conference and selected a new leader during a gathering of praise and celebration Sept. 23–25 at Rancho Betania in Santa Ana, Sonora....
View ArticleGreenville Launches Bastian School
Donald and Kathleen Bastian weren’t the typical young couple on the Greenville College campus when they moved from Canada to Illinois in the early 1950s. “We went to Greenville in 1951 as a sort of...
View ArticleA Revival Journal of Pure Bible Truth
B.T. Roberts didn’t just launch the Free Methodist denomination in 1860 with the help of other likeminded folks who because unwelcome in the Methodist Episcopal Church (forerunner of today’s United...
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