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Video of Gaddis UMC Sunday Worship Service -
Sunday, 7-25-21 at this link:

https://vimeo.com/579122889
Here is the link to the video of Heritage Stories of our church:

https://vimeo.com/567918508

daily    devotional

                                                  Dealing with Our Doubts
John 20: 24-31
          David Heller is a young Boston psychologist who, as part of a continuing research interest, collects letters children have written to God.  “Dear God: Children’s Letters to God” (New York: Doubleday, 1987) is Heller’s second publication on this subject.  In it he reports the following letter: “Dear God, I have doubts about you sometimes.  Sometimes I really believe.  Like when I was four and I hurt my arm and you healed it up fast.  But my question is, if you could do this why don’t you stop all the bad in the world?  Like war.  Like diseases.  Like famine.  Like drugs.  And there are problems in other people’s neighborhoods too.  I’ll try to believe more. 
          Who of us cannot relate to that child’s letter to God?  Who has not asked the same questions?  It is said that the most important questions are asked by children and philosophers.
          Belief and unbelief are the twin motivators within every human heart. The question is not whether we have doubts - some have many, some few - but what we do with the doubts we have.
          Thomas is called the Twin and with good reason. There are two persons, not one within each of us - one that believes, one that doubts. When we are wounded, sometimes the doubts grab a foothold, at least for a season, and we say, "See, I told you so. God doesn't care." Not so. Jesus was wounded for our transgressions.
A poet has written: "Doubt is pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother." Paul Tillich has expressed the relationship between faith and doubt this way: "Faith is courage that conquers doubt not by removing it, but by taking it in as an element into self."
          " Like the apostle Thomas many great Christians have wrestled with doubt in a hand-to-hand struggle which at times seemed unbearable.
          It seems to me that two of the most important dynamics of doubt are (1) a willingness to express doubts to other Christians and to God and (2) a willingness to doubt our doubts when we see the wounds of Christ.
          The psalmists doubted. God isn't predictable and life is often confusing. The ancient Hebrew poets expressed their feelings clearly to the Almighty. The psalmists faced their doubts honestly. They told God that they did not understand him. They fought with God, argued with God, questioned God, and chided God, but the most significant factor in their doubting was that they talked with God, not just about God.
         Jesus said, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" He expressed his feeling of being forsaken. Once and for all he silenced those who would have us express only nice, kind thoughts to our Father!
          Christians need to express their real feelings to God no matter what these feelings are! This is generally done best in the context of Christian fellowship where people openly share their problems, questions, and doubts.
          If we would see our doubts as natural expressions of our humanity and our limited existence, we could take them to God and deal with them honestly and openly.
If when doubts assail you, you bring them to God and act on what you believe, you will discover that tomorrow your belief is richer and deeper than today.
          AS so in the midst of our doubt we cry out  "My Lord and my God."
          "I believe. Help my unbelief."
          Let us take all our doubt to God sharing our wounds and fears with God so that we like Thomas can move through the doubt and boldly say, Jesus is my Lord and God.
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God bless,
Pastor Barbara

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Gaddis Church is a United Methodist Congregation.
Please explore our website to learn more about us!
141 Hwy 87  |  P.O. Box 566
Comfort, Texas 78013
830.995.3813
gaddischurch@gmail.com
Sunday Service:
10:00 am Worship Service
(in sanctuary or in parking lot)

​Office Hours:
Monday - Thursday |  8:00 am - 4:00 pm
​Friday |Closed
​www.gaddischurch.org

OFFERINGS

Gaddis Methodist Church is now taking offerings through the following link:
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a form that you may fill out to make an offering to Gaddis UMC. You do not have to login or join, simply fill in the form blanks and donate. It is secure. It is deposited into the Gaddis account with credit to you, the donor, including the type of donation you wish it to be, such as Tithe, Pledge, Discretionary, Rail, etc. You will receive full credit and statement from the website and Gaddis as long as you fill in the giving form completely. The form is set up to allow donations by Credit Card or Bank Account transfer.
It is done from your own computer or phone and is safe in terms of secure connection and done remotely from your own secure sanctuary of the moment.
Gaddis UMC thanks you for your cooperation and use of this plan.
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