How is Your Heart?    Good Morning Friends,    I am in what we call "worship" just about every Sunday morning. But what I am discovering is that the place of worship and the acts and order of worship, are not as important as our response to them. The essence of worship is ultimately a … Continue reading How is Your Heart? →

Have You Ever Had To Eat Your Words?    Good Morning Friends,  This Lent it would be great if we fasted from gossip and realized that we are not only what we eat but also what we speak. This Lent, if we cannot add the habit of speaking in love in our daily walk, maybe we can offer … Continue reading Have You Ever Had To Eat Your Words? →

Are You Filled With The Holy Spirit?  Good Morning Friends,  The image of the Holy Land holds many appropriate landmarks that bring understanding to the journey of the spiritual life one can contemplate during Lent. That Jesus traverses much of it on his walk to the cross is to guide us in our journey. The … Continue reading Are You Filled With The Holy Spirit? →

 Do We Really Believe Or Are We Make Believe Christians?  Good Morning Friends,  We say the words that would suggest we believe in the fullness of life in Christ...that there is really one, holy catholic and apostolic church. That there is one God. We recite the attributes of God....the characteristics of the church in the … Continue reading Do We Really Believe Or Are We Make Believe Christians? →

What Do You Think Really Matters In Mission?  Good Morning Friends,  The more I work in mission the more I realize that it is not my job to discover the community's needs, but to discover the talents of its people and help put them under new management that creatively converges faith and works to God's … Continue reading What Do You Think Really Matters In Mission? →

Who Can You Trust?  Good Morning Friends,  A Christian who has come to know Christ through the living Word will want to know more of the written Word, the Bible. But as they examine the Bible there may sometimes come over them a feeling of confusion and discouragement. The Bible is composed of many books … Continue reading Who Can You Trust? →

If you Are Given a Second Chance Will You Bear Homegrown Fruit?  Good Morning Friends,  I do not talk to plants. Really I don't. But growing up in Florida I have always been around plants and there was this one citrus tree in our back yard that had wonderful foliage but never produced. One day I … Continue reading If you Are Given a Second Chance Will You Bear Homegrown Fruit? →

 Are You Glorifying God When You Worship?  Good Morning Friends,  Have you become so accustomed to "church" that your heart is not in it? Today's scripture and devotional calls us to be more than an audience to an inspiring word... more than a spectator to a choral presentation in four parts. We are called to prepare ourselves, to engage body, mind and spirit...to look inward, … Continue reading Are You Glorifying God When You Worship? →

Do You Experience the Gentle Voice of Rest and Feel the Easy Yoke of Jesus?  Good Morning Friends,  Today's devotional and scripture echoes back to Deuteronomy 25:4... "Thou shall not muzzle the ox." The message here, for us who work, is that if we live in trust and obedience we can be successful in the eyes … Continue reading Do You Experience the Gentle Voice of Rest and Feel the Easy Yoke of Jesus? →

 Who Do You Call the One Who Comes In the Name of the Lord?  Good Morning Friends,  Today's devotional is about hope in the face of adversity and fear. Not a worldly hope of satisfied desires and wants and wishes fulfilled but a biblical understanding that is very different. It teaches us that hope is … Continue reading Who Do You Call the One Who Comes In the Name of the Lord? →