September 24, 2023 / 11:00 AM Traditional Worship

Join us in Traditional Worship as we continue on our new sermon series "I've Been Meaning to Ask..." with Pastors Steve & Ivy. To fill out a Connect Card: https://forms.gle/5Ntevx1ojg2HSvBm8 To learn more about MUMC: https://mentorumc.org If you have a prayer request click this link http://mentorumc.org/prayer-requests Graphic design by Rev. Lauren Wright Pittman | A Sanctified Art LLC | sanctifiedart.org Watch “Brené Brown on Empathy.” RSA Shorts. Published on Youtube. December 10, 2013.    • Brené Brown on Empathy   (Note: Brené Brown discusses the differences between sympathy and empathy, and how to build empathic connection.) Read “6 Things to Say (or Not) to a Friend in Need” by Kate Bowler. Published on Oprah.com. https://www.oprah.com/inspiration/kat... (Note: Duke Divinity professor and author, Kate Bowler, shares what words and actions bring real comfort in the midst of suffering. Bowler pulls from her experiences of living with stage 4 colon cancer.) Read “Paul's Letter to American Christians” a sermon by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, on 4 November 1956. MLKP. https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/ki... (Note: In this sermon, Dr. King imagines he is the apostle Paul writing a letter to the American Church. Later in the sermon, he declares: “In your struggle for justice, let your oppressor know that you are not attempting to defeat or humiliate him, or even to pay him back for injustices that he has heaped upon you. Let him know that you are merely seeking justice for him as well as yourself.”) Resources provided with permission from A Sanctified Art (https://sanctifiedart.org/)