Gates Chapel United Methodist Church

09/06/2026

08/08/2026

Homecoming at Gates Chapel
August 9th,
11:00 a.m., followed with lunch

07/26/2026

Remember: Combined Service Tomorrow at Nine Mile for Homecoming

11 a.m. Followed by Lunch

07/20/2026

The Book about Home

Every Sunday we gather around our holy Book of many books. We explore its literary genres and varied voices, its timeless truths and limitless questions. Its themes and topics are countless, of course, but I’m convinced that, through all the grand tales and small moments, through all the poetry and wisdom and even legalese, there moves a recurring idea. Or is it a memory or dream or vision? I only know it’s a place and so much more than a place. It’s home. That’s a big word of four letters—home. It is the place of safety and sometimes fear, nostalgia and a few ghosts, but in the Bible, it seems to me, it is the place forever sought, and, in moments divine or even surprising, sometimes found....

Every Sunday we gather around our holy Book of many books.  We explore its literary genres and varied voices, its timeless truths and limitless questions.  Its themes and topics are count…

07/07/2026

I Am

I am a sinner, a person of unclean lips and impure thoughts. I am flawed, deeply and profoundly. I am a wastrel, squandering my moments, my money, myself, living a half-life of littleness that thinks itself big. And I am strangely and wonderfully made, a little lower than the angels, bearing in the depth of my being the very image of God. I am embraced by a love that never ends. I am God’s gift to the world. I slog through my days; I march to the rhythm of Heaven’s drums; I stumble over my own feet of clay; and sometimes I dance, such is the joy sometimes....

I am a sinner, a person of unclean lips and impure thoughts.  I am flawed, deeply and profoundly.  I am a wastrel, squandering my moments, my money, myself, living a half-life o…