Ginter Park United Methodist Church

The BIG Time Out                      “…He prayed: In trouble, deep trouble, I prayed to God. He answered me. From the belly of the grave I cried ‘Help!’ You heard my cry. You threw me into ocean’s depths, into a watery grave, with oceans waves, ocean breakers crashing over me. I said ‘I’ve been thrown away, thrown out, out of your sight. I’ll never again lay eyes on your Holy Temple.’ Ocean gripped me by the throat. The ancient Abyss grabbed me and held me tight. My head was all tangled in seaweed at the bottom of the sea where the mountains take root. I was as far down as a body can go, and the gates were slamming shut behind me forever-yet you pulled me up from that grave alive,... read more

  Pray For Each Other “ For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of His glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” - Ephesians 3:14-20 (NIV)     In Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians, he demonstrates one of the huge things that we are called to as Christians-... read more