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Bishop Jung's Commentaries

The following is an index of commentaries provided by Bishop Jung:

Obama Elected Nation’s First African-American President (November 5th, 2008)
Cluster Ministries: Churches Can Do More in Partnership (November 2nd, 2008)
A Thanksgiving Message (November 1st, 2008)

Commentary on Diversity (October 1st, 2008)

More Reflections on Violence (September 1st, 2008)

A Response to Rising Teen Violence (July 28th, 2008)

State of the Church Address (June 5th, 2008 - Annual Conference)
Planting Passion for God (June 5th, 2008 - Annual Conference Opening Address)
The Heart of a Servant Leader (June 7th, 2008 - Annual Conference Ordination Service)

Jesus, Remember Me (May 1st, 2008 - General Conference)

Unity as God’s Gift (April 15th, 2008)

Easter Celebration - “Defrosting Our Faith” (March 18th, 2008)

Reflections on Appointment Making (January 25th, 2008)
Bishop’s Renewal Leave Report (January 5th, 2008)
Greetings in this season of Epiphany (January 1st, 2008)

Celebrating Into The Future (June 12th, 2007)
The Ministry of All God’s People (June 9th, 2007)

God’s call to eliminate poverty (May 25th, 2007)
Scars can be transformed for healing (May 18th, 2007)

A pastoral letter in the wake of a national tragedy (April 27th, 2007)
A pastoral letter about human rights violations in the Philippines (April 6th, 2007)

Like Rodney Dangerfield, clergy 'get no respect...' (March 23rd, 2007)
Walk with God (March 9th, 2007)

Small groups grow healthy Christians (February 9th, 2007)
Study will strengthen our social witness (February 2nd, 2007)

God has amazing vision for us (January 5th, 2007)

Jesus' birth shows God's saving grace (December 22nd, 2006)
Christian love must be response to divisive issues (December 15th, 2006)

Don't hide lamp of peacemaking under bushel (November 3rd, 2006)

God believes in each of us (October 27th, 2006)
Ministry must produce fruit (October 20th, 2006)

It is our dream... (September 1st, 2006)

A Pastoral Statement on the Sanctuary of Elvira Arellano (August 16th, 2006)
Being the church means being the model of hospitality (August 4th, 2006)

What's different about new superintending? (July 21st, 2006)

Everyone is called to lead (June 30th, 2006)
State of the Church Address at 167th Northern Illinois Annual Conference (June 12th, 2006)
Our church belongs to God (June 16th, 2006)
Leadership is primary pastoral role (June 2nd, 2006)

God calls us to be visionary leaders (May 12th, 2006)

Easter brings power of Good News (April 21st, 2006)

Awaken to call of God (March 17th, 2006)

Grace is sufficient (February 10th, 2006)

King insisted on staying tuned to God's voice (January 27th, 2006)
Leading change in the conference (January 13th, 2006)

Advent invites us to joy (December 16th, 2005)

Circle of love must widen, not shrink (November 18th, 2005)
A Pastoral Letter to the People of the United Methodist Church from the Council of Bishops (November 2nd, 2005)

Holiness of Heart and Life (October 21st, 2005)

Sharing the Good News (September 30)
A letter on Hurricane Katrina to the Northern Illinois Conference (September 6th, 2005)
Christian humility and evangelism (September 2nd, 2005)

A letter from Zimbabwe (August 12th, 2005)
Clergy ethics (August 5th, 2005)

Wonderful stream of living water (July 29th, 2005)
Streams of living water (July 22nd, 2005)

Fill us with power (June 10th, 2005)

The wrong arguments (May 6th, 2005)

Discerning gifts is a critical task (April 29th, 2005)
New realities (April 22nd, 2005)

The raising of Lazarus (March 25th, 2005)
I have hope for small churches (March 4th, 2005)

Lenten spirituality is all about connectedness (February 25th, 2005)
Reflections on making clergy appointments (February 11th, 2005)

God likes diversity (January 28th, 2005)
In our beginning (January 7th, 2005)