St. Luke's United Methodist Church | Site-Wide Activity https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/activity/ Activity feed for the entire site. Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:52:57 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v=12.0.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 932f1e0b7723fd4ed81722318dee5a71 Brianna Reeves wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=89854 Wed, 04 Oct 2023 14:42:48 -0500 When Ministry Leaves the Building

]]> a71006d9edcbb4f1ed50fdbb91f4918b Brianna Reeves wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=89759 Thu, 14 Sep 2023 14:28:17 -0500 When Holding Tight Means Letting Go

]]> 9d4e73957b8d2fb4981df686f1164b7b Brianna Reeves wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=89668 Tue, 29 Aug 2023 21:06:31 -0500 When Beauty Speaks For Itself

]]> 5e011da61551e37d38859f80dfd4023e Suzi Pitts wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=89547 Wed, 09 Aug 2023 18:32:58 -0500 When Faith Becomes Sight

]]> fbed0ac650fe1bd3411fa96587d6ae24 Suzi Pitts wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=89485 Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:38:03 -0500 When Questions Bring Strength

]]> 7a5af8b9f977b7f3c14cfd85bb859b18 Brianna Reeves wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=88781 Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:56:45 -0500 When Music Delivers the Delight of Jesus

]]> 1432eeda122c08863763d9fdbe854575 Brianna Reeves wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=88630 Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:51:51 -0500 When Friends Are Family

]]> 0f3949dfa3b8d4b481593d5052c3a68f Brianna Reeves wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=88177 Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:11:39 -0500 What a 3rd Grade Bible Can Do

]]> 54fae33a46b49e943339cd82dc6529c6 Brianna Reeves wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=87832 Wed, 07 Jun 2023 16:23:34 -0500 When Grief Births Something New

]]> b95358adc4d0cb0f90bda7bd890793a7 Brianna Reeves wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=87278 Fri, 26 May 2023 18:46:03 -0500 When It's All About the Team

]]> 8ccd31e4be002cc1915b7757e98168c9 Brianna Reeves wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=86965 Tue, 16 May 2023 21:11:05 -0500 When Golf Alone Just Won't Cut It

]]> af82e3264ecb824c3a373c084e9e80e3 Brianna Reeves wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=86393 Tue, 02 May 2023 21:12:23 -0500 When a Table is Not Just a Table

]]> 7117db50213cadf0a13f075179b1969d Brianna Reeves wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=86068 Wed, 26 Apr 2023 19:39:09 -0500 When Light Can't Be Dimmed

]]> eceb91f3762138e93e809ee6577fd13e Brianna Reeves wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=85807 Wed, 19 Apr 2023 20:00:34 -0500 When Forgiveness Opens the Heart

]]> b894e4a1f627dfc108b688082df2dc65 Brianna Reeves wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=85598 Thu, 13 Apr 2023 21:10:22 -0500 When a Hobby Becomes a Mission

]]> 00f1db351df8c8f1cec918634edc7ab8 Brianna Reeves wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=85551 Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:36:30 -0500 When Eggs Become Legacy

]]> 58940927939727a3d025df404329b19c Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=82257 Thu, 15 Dec 2022 22:26:36 -0600 Trust that God will still love you exquisitely, especially as you claim time to be still today.

 

]]> 9ebe795a65a89f78c275e0692ecd421a Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=68757 Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:10:35 -0600 God,

Yes, the holiday season is upon us. I pray that I experience it to be what the word indicates – a holy day season. Tune my heart and mind, ears and eyes to all things holy. Blur the lines for me betw […]

]]> 8d5010a3ff6d057d3b6651deef6d4c8f Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=67400 Fri, 08 Oct 2021 15:35:40 -0500 God,

You have blessed me in so many ways. And yet, in spite of those many blessings, I am too often preoccupied with my own concerns. I wonder how I can accomplish the tasks of the day, solve my own problems, a […]

]]> d701f26acd9bc20fa411ef5fa0697d63 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=64788 Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:00:54 -0500 Dear God,

I want to be an open-minded person, ready to listen to the opinions of others, willing to change my mind when I am wrong. On the other hand, I don’t want to be a people pleaser, just saying what pe […]

]]> 4eb124bc9ee3fca09a847791cd251634 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=64595 Fri, 16 Jul 2021 14:09:07 -0500 God,

Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to work I go.

Today, there are things for me to accomplish, tasks to check off the list.

I confess that there are days I feel like Sisyphus, pushing a rock up a hill o […]

]]> 48838456c3d476fea480c6546fb7882c Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=64510 Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:43:56 -0500 One hot and sunny morning in early June my husband, Brian and I met with a small group of like minded individuals in the kitchen of the Gethsemane Church campus. We all came from different walks of life, […]

]]> b6740f8cce18eae449536994d05d3fc4 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=63101 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 14:48:53 -0500 God,

“Have I told you lately that I love you? Well, darling, I’m telling you now.” My mom used to sing me that song as a small child. I find myself filling my prayers to you with thanksgiving and confess […]

]]> 7b3fdc0cfdc88cf0a122abc3b299ee26 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=62886 Fri, 04 Jun 2021 15:00:57 -0500 God, how do you feel when I bring you silly questions? Do you really care if I attend my grandson’s baseball game this week or do the tasks at home I need to get done instead? Are you interested in hearing me a […]

]]> 1377fe7c7cb1b2e412d68c35e030a943 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=61789 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 13:47:47 -0500 God,
I pray for courage to speak the truth as I hear it from you.
I pray for the humility to know that it might be my own voice rather than yours I hear.
I pray for the compassion to listen to the voices of […]

]]> ccab4c35df54de1415b50edc827d2bed Sally Penning commented on the post, Remembering Rev. Bill Denham https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/remembering-rev-bill-denham/#comment-2712 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:30:00 -0600 Laura, you and Bill opened your home and hearts to St. Luke’s. You made a large church seem very small. Bill made each of us feel like we were the most important person he knew, and we are forever grateful. We g […]

]]> 860c63ebcfcbbf3fd5352882d6a6b083 Suzi Pitts commented on the post, Remembering Rev. Bill Denham https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/remembering-rev-bill-denham/#comment-2711 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:56:47 -0600 Laura- We love you so much and pray these comments will lift your spirit. Bill was so dearly loved by our community as evidenced by the volume of messages.I will always be grateful for the encouragement he was in […]

]]> 6e10621e70f87d8e06a45ec3e1912bc6 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=55271 Tue, 08 Dec 2020 20:03:35 -0600 When I say St. Luke’s is a part of my DNA, I am not exaggerating. My parents met and were married here, my siblings and I were baptized and confirmed here, and now I am a member and employee here! St. L […]

]]> d63f967c8b0ae0c261fc9ba098e90352 Suzi Pitts wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=55012 Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:50:42 -0600 A Personal Prayer

God of Truth,

I remember when the doctor gave me the news. I needed to make some changes in my life. If I didn’t cut out the carbs, I would have diabetes. I didn’t like to hear it, but I s […]

]]> e4b4feb3b89a89b2b1ad934404051bcf Suzi Pitts wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=54753 Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:17:17 -0600 4dcfbd5e9bc2e22e98347ac522fb3fa3 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=54737 Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:19:15 -0600 For St. Luke’s member Ron Fisher, an usher at both the 9:45 and 11 AM traditional services, our greatly admired main sanctuary was truly a “family affair”.  Ron’s father Louis and uncle Fred co-owned Fisher C […]

]]> e688cab7bbb7c7080ae66d1b7c157a8a Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=54734 Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:14:10 -0600 The year was 2008. It was late summer, and I had just finished taking the Bar Exam when I got a call. “How would you feel about being my ‘consigliere’?” It was Rev. Justin Coleman. Rev. Coleman had been a […]

]]> cf3889567a986ede3bdf50c049ceb937 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=54613 Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:34:19 -0600 I will never forget a sermon illustration Dr. James W. Moore preached from the St. Luke’s pulpit. He reported a true event that occurred in his sister’s church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The pastor arr […]

]]> 28eb353e5859c947e888690ee1f502f8 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=54610 Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:16:14 -0600

]]> 54fcfc3e7aa1634fc8f2ede94744c49e Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=54479 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:00:27 -0600 I have over 32 years of fond St. Luke’s memories.  The beginning of my St. Luke’s experience was marrying my wife, Anne in the chapel in 1989, which seems like just a few years ago. Hard to believe I have live […]

]]> a7b0ba15b9b334e115003be7adcd174b Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=54350 Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:17:52 -0500 It was the summer of 1957. My Mom and Dad had heard about an organist/teacher by the name of Bob Bennett. He was the organist at St. Luke’s Methodist Church. They contacted him and Mom drove me to the church on a […]

]]> d168f55088bc27e7a1b321822b1ffbf5 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=54227 Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:23:12 -0500 In 1988 I moved from Austin to Houston to join Vinson & Elkins (“V&E”) as an associate. You could say I found my church home at St. Luke’s through V&E.  While I was a summer associate there, Randy and Ann Smith […]

]]> e8c6ebf1a71acca8e42383b6c598a496 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=54048 Mon, 12 Oct 2020 18:43:26 -0500

]]> 9c1698b5e9683f8819f05da1a4f08c0c Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53884 Mon, 05 Oct 2020 16:22:12 -0500

]]> 8ba2ec5b704c96be59ab2fde47c1dc80 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53883 Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:09:44 -0500 I was made aware of St. Luke’s Church when I met Joe Blanton, my husband to be. The St. Luke’s family was holding services in the auditorium of Lamar Senior High School. On one of our dates, I accompanied Joe to […]

]]> 7d46ee386a7e17e31e90832618a48976 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53880 Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:58:34 -0500

]]> ea17b3ba9d87a6951127203b6dd120aa Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53742 Mon, 28 Sep 2020 17:09:40 -0500

]]> cf9e4cf7dadef7c84b42f4f54546e7ac Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53662 Wed, 23 Sep 2020 20:52:09 -0500

]]> 3000aca0b212c447136831eca9fec899 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53659 Wed, 23 Sep 2020 20:45:38 -0500

]]> 994309bcb4fa643472f0ecc23216e040 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53570 Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:41:39 -0500

]]> 738a0ff5c4c1bbe7bfb4c0ac2f671712 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53430 Mon, 14 Sep 2020 19:06:24 -0500 Early in my marriage, my husband and I moved to Houston from Southern California. We knew finding a church home was important and in 1991, after seeing Dr. Moore preach on TV, we decided to try St. Luke’s. We […]

]]> f3af4379cea00bc5c346d9756c9bca15 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53220 Tue, 08 Sep 2020 13:30:23 -0500 Dear Friends,

In thinking back to my time with you at St. Luke’s, I hardly know where to begin. My friends and colleagues in the Houston early childhood community were still reeling from the sudden death of o […]

]]> 615add630d07fd62dfa49b03896a79c9 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53148 Tue, 01 Sep 2020 18:16:36 -0500 My husband and I bought my childhood home in Bellaire from my Dad after Mom died and he decided to stay in assisted living. I had grown up at Bellaire Methodist and intended to go back there when we moved to […]

]]> 107ce824df322dd6cd8561d58ad85367 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=52958 Mon, 24 Aug 2020 15:25:36 -0500 I am from Wichita Falls, Texas and Becky is from Jennings, Louisiana. We were both raised as Methodists.  We met in Houston in 1977, where we happened to live in apartments next door to each other […]

]]> bcd61dbb14aa548d71c65546afdd3f2b Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=52908 Fri, 21 Aug 2020 13:58:08 -0500 A PERSONAL PRAYER

God,

I never really expected to become such a creature of habit. But I have come to realize that I am sort of stuck in my ways. I like my morning routine the way it has always been. I l […]

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