Influence Your Denomination … in Less Than 60 Seconds

Light & Life Magazine [LLM] has always been about connecting Free Methodists. But in these ...

Influence Your Denomination … in Less Than 60 Seconds

Light & Life Magazine [LLM] has always been about connecting Free Methodists. But in these days of the social network, you can keep up with others from around the globe as easily as those around the block. You can also read LLM in whatever form you like: paper, Web, mobile, tablet. … So what if [...]

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Web Exclusive: Discipleship (Week 4) – Love Challenge

by Sabra Dyas “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. … Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one [...]

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Web Exclusive: Discipleship (Week 3) – Your Mind: Holy Spirit at Work

by Sabra Dyas “Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires” Romans 8:5. Once you’ve made up your mind, that’s it. No one can convince you to do anything [...]

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LLM: February 2012

Holy Workday What does a Free Methodist Church employee know about working in the real world, where colleagues’ dirty jokes and profanity may be an unavoidable part of the workday? How can you take a magazine’s holy-at-work theme seriously when its Openers column is written by a guy whose boss’s bosses are bishops? Before I [...]

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Holiness in the Workplace

by Carol Duberowski The workday includes the temptation to cross the line from what’s holy to what’s comfortable. The deep desire for acceptance can lead to compromised values and ethics. How can I live out holiness with all the day-to-day pressures thrown at me in the workplace? One answer is to stay on course with [...]

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An Outbreak of Holiness

by Bishop David Kendall Imagine an “outbreak of holiness.” Of course, only God is absolutely holy. Still, God calls His people to be holy as well and has taken action to make this possible. Toward the beginning of our Scripture story, God provided instruction and a system of sacrifice so the people could avoid living [...]

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Light in Dark Places

by John Hubbs He faced the same reality many of us do. God changed us, but our environment remained the same. Jesus calls us to be light, but how do we live as believers in a heathen world? Ever see a floodlight circling in the sky to draw attention to a big sale? Sometimes the [...]

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Bob and Marty Briner

Bob Briner: Roaring Lamb

by Jeff Finley A 1999 New York Times obituary ran under the headline “Bob Briner, 63, Innovator in Tennis and Television.” The Times noted that Briner, co-founder of ProServ Television, and tennis legend Arthur Ashe won Emmys for their documentary “A Hard Road to Glory.” The newspaper reported that Briner, as executive director of the [...]

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Management as Ministry

by Jeff Finley Dan Sigler recently became an ordained Free Methodist elder, a rank typically held by pastors, but he’s not behind a pulpit most Sunday mornings. Sigler has another title: sales manager for a publishing company. The former church planter with a master’s degree in social work admitted he seems like an unlikely person [...]

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