“Good Students are Good Teachers and Vice-Versa” Sermon based on Luke 2:41-52, Mark 11:15-18 and 12:13-17 Rev. Paul E. Capetz Christ Church by the Sea (United Methodist), Newport Beach There is only one story in the entire New Testament about the childhood of Jesus. As a twelve-year-old boy, Jesus had come to Jerusalem with his...

John Wesley, to whom we owe our Methodist heritage, once wrote an important sermon entitled “A Catholic Spirit.” Here the word “catholic” is to be understood as “universal” or “allembracing,” spelled with a lower-case “c”; Wesley is not talking about Roman Catholicism.