WELCOME
​
to  gaddis UMC 

Sunday  Service   online



Sunday Morning Worship 08/07/2022
​at this link:  https://youtu.be/iPHyJz8Pleg​​​​​​​​

​​​

daily    devotional

               WITHOUT THE FIRE THE SEEDS WILL NEVER GROW
Luke 12: 49-56
           Stretching south for hundreds of miles from Glacier National Park lay a majestic mixture of valleys, rushing streams, and gargantuan mountains called the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Backpackers have hiked there for decades looking for elk, grizzlies, and golden eagles. Fortunately, the grizzlies stay up in the high country, but a golden eagle may be spotted, and the elusive wolverine may be tracked.
              The Bob Marshall Wilderness hosts some 90,000 packers and hikers each year, most of them in the months of July and August. They must come in either by foot or horseback. No motorized vehicles are allowed. The forests on those rugged mountain slopes are thick with Lodgepole Pine, a tough, hardy tree with cones so thick that only extreme heat can burst forth the seeds. That's where fire comes in. For thousands oh, millions of years lightning has cracked the big sky out there down to the forests below. (Often the lightning will hit the Douglas Firs, less rugged than the Lodgepole Pines, and a forest fire will begin.)
               For years, of course, the United States Forest Service fought furiously to put out these fires. More recently, they have adopted a policy of managed fires. They have learned these fires have a purpose. Without them the seeds of the Lodgepole Pines are never released. Without them much of the underbrush and plant life there does not regenerate. The earth needs a fire cast on it or it will die.
               Jesus, speaking to Peter, that blustery, Lodgepole Pine kind of a man, said, "Peter, I have a fire to cast over the earth, and how I am constrained until it be kindled!" What did Jesus mean? He knew that Peter, like all of his disciples, was a wilderness that needed fire, or he would die. Peter needed the fire of God's Word to burn open his heart, so that the Gospel can grow in him and throughout the world.
               Are we allowing God’s word to burn in our hearts and transform us to go into the world and offer the love of Christ to others? We pray, “Come Holy Spirit come fill our hearts, calling the Holy Spirit for move us and transform us to be more like Jesus.
 
          A Song titled “Set My Heart of Fire’ sings the words:
Come in, Lord have your way with me.
Look around, take whatever.
Show me all that I can give to you, that comes between, me and heaven.
Come in, Lord have your way with me.
Look around, take whatever.
Show me all that I can give to you, that comes between, me and heaven.
I sing: Set my heart on fire, holy spirit .
Ever burning brighter, holy spirit.
Set my heart on fire.
              Once again it comes down to are we in love with Jesus? Do we put Jesus first in our lives and seek his will? Do we take time to sit at his feet and be transformed by Jesus? Are we willing to cast away the things in this world that keep us from seeking to serve him by loving others?
               Let us pray Come Holy Spirit Come set our hearts and fire that we might be more like you building God’s kingdom here on earth.
 
God bless,
Pastor Barbara 

welcome

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:
9:00am Bible & Breakfast
10:00 am Worship Service


​Office Hours:
Monday - Thursday |  8:00 am - 4:00 pm
​Friday |Closed


Music   in   the   park​

FREE public concert
2nd Tuesday of the month- May thru October.
​ See schedule under Ministries

OFFERINGS

Gaddis Methodist Church is now taking offerings through the following link:
https://tithe.ly/give?c=1471116
​Clicking on the link will take you to a secure web page with 
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.
God Bless and keep watching our videos of Church Service.
​Stay safe and healthy; Stay the Way.​