Milestones, Cornerstones, Smooth Stones and Cairns Good Morning Friends, Those of you who read these devotionals know that I like to hike on trails that others have walked on. The red trail blazes on trees and stones put upon stones as trail markers help keep one from getting lost. Following that image today we look … Continue reading Milestones​, Cornerston​es, Smooth Stones and Cairns →

Faith is a Paradox at the End of an Infinite Rope Good Morning Friends, Remember that moment in the movie Cars where Lighting McQueen is instructed that to go left he had to turn right? It is seemingly contradictory but true. So it is in reading the Bible. In reading other sacred books I have … Continue reading Faith is a Paradox at the End of an Infinite Rope →

Made One Good Morning Friends, Today at church we begin a study of Romans and in that I imagine a study of one of the most studied minds of history, Paul of Tarsus…a Roman citizen and Saul of Tarsus, a Jew of Jews who was brought up, as tradition has it, under Gamaliel, one of … Continue reading Made One →

Compassionate Capacity Building* Good Morning Friends, Understanding the nature of and flow of power is so important if one hopes handouts can help humanity. If the flow is one way, power can be sequestered in the lives of the rich givers robbing others. It is an injustice of sorts. What we perceive as the Holy … Continue reading Compassion​ate Capacity Building →

Being Made Righteous in Christ Good Morning Friends, I do like C.S. Lewis. He has a way of getting one to think. For example regarding good and evil he points out that just because there is such a thing as bad does not mean that there is no God. He argues against a dualism of … Continue reading Being Made Righteous in Christ →

Scripture Satan Loathes and We Should Love Good Morning Friends, Some people have a chemical imbalance that must be addressed medically, but others face something that appears more to me like an attack of evil.  Give Jesus a little credit for knowing the difference. He caste out legions of demons and he can do it … Continue reading Scripture Satan Loathes and We Should Love →

Apples and Honey and Finding Time to Tithe Good Morning Friends, Rosh Hashanah the Jewish New Year begins at sundown today. Rosh Hashanah is the only Jewish holiday occurring on the first day of the month, when the moon appears as a thin crescent. The timing is purposeful for the Messiah comes when things are … Continue reading Apples and Honey and Finding Time to Tithe →

What Would Jesus Ask? Good Morning Friends, During the last few weeks I have been quietly addressing the issue of how to reconcile the reality that there are people in this world who are not Christians and those who do not even believe in God with the reality that there are a lot of people … Continue reading What Would Jesus Ask? →

Things You Cannot Learn on Google Good Morning Friends, One can find just about anything on Google today if you know how to ask the right questions and have a discerning mind to sort through all the information. The problem is that the internet does not come with an authority App that distinguishes truth from … Continue reading Things You Cannot Learn on Google →

When We First Recognized Jesus Good Morning Friends, Last Sunday our pastor following the announcement of a church wide dinner, as he was sharing a reverse image picture at the children’s chat at church, talked to the children about how art reveals something about us. Some of the children…some of the adults watching did not … Continue reading When We First Recognized Jesus →