A New Call Good Morning Friends, Yesterday afternoon I saw a visual manifestation of the devotion I had written earlier that day about strength in numbers. The location was a Starbucks where I pick up food donations for our partners. I always use the opportunity to minister to the needs of the workers who know … Continue reading A New Call →

Entwined Moments of Divine Freedom. Good Morning Friends, Most people have not learned to have a sensitivity to the moving of the Spirit that prompts a shared love with others. But these times of sharing the right things at the right time can last a lifetime and are indeed Entwined Moments of Divine Freedom. Scripture: … Continue reading Entwined Moments of Divine Freedom. →

LIFE'S STORMS Good Morning Friends, A storm blew through South Florida yesterday and still lingers as I write this. It got me thinking this morning in the dark about what we see about storms and what we do not. It got me thinking about the storms in the Bible and how we face our own … Continue reading LIFE’S STORMS →

Practice the Presence of God Good Morning Friends, I have some friends who have disciplined themselves like watchman in the night to pray for Immokalee. They are rare creatures that pray and hope for a day when their numbers increase dramatically. They sense the challenge that George Barna translated into a study about 15 years … Continue reading Practice the Presence of God →

Becoming Christ's Children, The Sacrifice of Family and the Hope of Reciprocal Altruism. Good Morning Friends, Today on this Second Sunday in Lent we contemplate those habits of daily sacrifice that extends love in families and communities. Today we explore acts of selflessness and the practice of concern for the welfare of others. One has to wonder of … Continue reading Becoming Christ’s Children, The Sacrifice of Family and the Hope of Reciprocal Altruism. →

Loving When it is Tough Good Morning Friends, Tough love is an expression used, usually for the purpose of justification, when someone treats another person harshly or sternly with the intent to help them in the long run. But I have met Bill Milliken who wrote the book Tough Love and I have to think it … Continue reading Loving When it is Tough →

Emptied and Filled Good Morning Friends, I have often wondered about the importance of real fellowship in the conversion of the church to actually be a tool for healthy community building. As we behold the places in which we live and work and worship I think the hope is in the power to live and … Continue reading Emptied and Filled →

The Kingdom Among Us. Good Morning Friends, We do not think of Jesus as smart, but kind. People do not think of Christ as the most intelligent man to ever live nor as a warrior king but he is that too. Dallas Willard put it this way, "We live in a culture that has, for … Continue reading The Kingdom Among Us. →

A New Way Good Morning Friends, I updated my I-phone to a new operating system and well it had a few bugs. The real problem was that my carrier for one of my emails that I had from the start was working on a platform that did not support the technology. Initially I was pissed. … Continue reading A New Way →

Our Shade, Protection and Song Good Morning Friends, The church is to be a place and people of miracles...a place of song. Today we read about the Acts of the Apostles and also the Psalmist Gospel... David's Good News that God is the omnipotent and self-existent One who preserves His people...the ever present influence of … Continue reading Our Shade, Protection and Song →