A Radical New Beginning Good Morning Friends, We are both on the road to Pentecost and in the age of Holy Spirit where God's redemptive acts reach out to change the world. There is a portion of this journey done and a portion left to be done. We see it reflected in the feast days. … Continue reading A Radical New Beginning →

The Ways of Salt and Light, Love and Truth Good Morning Friends, Do you want to experience God face to face and not just the wake of His activity in history? If so, do not make the mistake of being content in just receiving power without distributing it. There is a difference between influencing the … Continue reading The Ways of Salt and Light, Love and Truth →

Begin the Day with Prayer Good Morning Friends, Christians who realize the necessity for prayer and yearn for it but who find their prayer unconvincing and unsatisfying might benefit from working in the fields of Psalms as dynamic tools for prayer. Imagine walking with the songs as a vibration of the Holy Spirit as it … Continue reading Begin the Day with Prayer →

"W-H-A-T I-S L-O-V-E?" Good Morning Friends, A woman named Helen Keller had completely lost her sight as a child. She was both deaf and blind. Just three months shy of her seventh birthday, she met a woman - a teacher named Anne Sullivan. Helen tells about their first meeting: "The morning after my teacher came … Continue reading “W-H-A-T I-S L-O-V-E?” →

The Role of the Holy Spirit in Helping us to Overcome Spiritual Blindness Good Morning Friends, William Molyneux, an Irish philosopher, whose wife was blind wrote to the philosopher John Locke in July 1688 and asked whether a man born blind and taught to distinguish things by touch could attain the same knowledge by sight … Continue reading The Role of the Holy Spirit in Helping us to Overcome Spiritual Blindness →

The Agony of Grace. Good Morning Friends, On this Memorial Day we meditate on the reality that God's grace has found us because another has died. Today we face the reality that we must live in the achievement of another. We must embrace God's favor at another's expense. We must abandon our past and embrace … Continue reading The Agony of Grace →

God's Promises Good Morning Friends, Who have you chosen to love? Who have you chosen not to love? Ok think about it and be honest. There is something about the way God becomes real and actual in our lives in the tension of this question. God loved Jacob but hated Esau. Now there is a … Continue reading God’s Promises →

 "What does Memorial Day mean for the Christian?" Good Morning Friends, This is Memorial Day Weekend and we remember the fallen heroes who left behind widows and widowers, and sons and daughters, and brothers and sisters and friends. Its power helps us to focus on what we are to remember and what we are to … Continue reading “What does Memorial Day mean for the Christian?” →

A Love the Lasts Good Morning Friends, Today on the road to Pentecost we continue our contemplations on what the Holy Spirit does in our daily lives. And let me tell you my experience is that it does a lot more than we realize to lead and guide us, to convict us of sin, to … Continue reading A Love the Lasts →

The Truth About Love Good Morning Friends, There is a sign in artwork in the narthex of our sanctuary that says: "We welcome you as we would welcome Christ Himself." Now we can think about the Jesus coming in the clouds and battle of the saints in the sweet bye and bye or we can … Continue reading The Truth About Love →