What Is Happening Below the Surface In Our Worship of God?  Good Morning Friends,  Today we look at the nature, context and actions we call worship to discover that we can be doing worship type things like singing hymns and listening to sermons and giving at the offering and even taking communion but still not … Continue reading What Is Happening Below the Surface In Our Worship of God? →

What Happened To The Twelve Baskets Left Over?  Good Morning Friends,  Working with several hunger focused not for profit organizations I have found that they hold one thing in common, from Churches to soup kitchens and packaging events like Meals of Hope, they all hate wasting food. I support some financially, deliver food to many … Continue reading What Happened To The Twelve Baskets Left Over? →

How Can We Believe When We Seek Glory From One Another And Not From God?  Good Morning Friends,  On Monday morning in Immokalee we were contemplating the questions Jesus asked and the questions we might ask him in return. The Bible records well over a hundred questions Jesus posed to others. They typically help capture … Continue reading How Can We Believe When We Seek Glory From One Another And Not From God? →

Are You Ready For The Wedding Feast?  Good Morning Friends,  Today's lectionary draws from the passage in Revelation of John's vision of the marriage of the Lamb...Jesus. And it dawns on me this morning that the path of Lent can be compared, in good Trinitarian fashion, to the preparation necessary for each of the three … Continue reading Are You Ready For The Wedding Feast? →

 Do You Know Who This Is About?  Good Morning Friends,  My ministry…my life…my suffering has had a central theme of striving to bring dignity to nameless people lost in the statistics. These are the poor, the least, the lost, the last, the anonymous, often despised groups of people marginalized as in-significant before society but not … Continue reading Do You Know Who This Is About? →

Do You Feel God's Intercession?  Good Morning Friends,  Paul writes to the Corinthians in response to the existential loneliness, the emptiness inside that revisits them and us when we embrace a secular ecstasy that is born out of evil. At the heart of the problem is our separation from God...death. In today's devotional we begin to see … Continue reading Do You Feel God’s Intercession? →

Are You Prepared to Make a Decision to Forgive?  Good Morning Friends,  Mercy is at the heart of today's devotional. The problem presented is the challenge of how God could possible forgive us when we do not forgive others. We pray forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. But before that we have … Continue reading Are You Prepared to Make a Decision to Forgive? →

Do You Hear God's Voice Calling You To The Party?  Good Morning Friends,  In Western philosophy, traces of the idea that came to be called the tabula rasa appear as early as the writing of Aristotle. Islamic philosophers discussed it in relation to those who are isolated from society. St. Thomas Aquinas promoted the idea as part of … Continue reading Do You Hear God’s Voice Calling You To The Party? →

What Brings You Comfort?    Good Morning Friends,  Today on our journey of Lent we explore prayers that can raise the dead. We spend a little quite time in the story of a person who helped people by using the talents she had to encourage other. Today we explore how we are knit together in … Continue reading What Brings You Comfort? →

Do You Believe in the Power of Small Miracles?  Good Morning Friends,  There may have been times in your life when you felt like you needed a parting of the seas to survive. But God does not seem to work that way now. Today though, I think we need to look beyond the Cecil B. … Continue reading Do You Believe in the Power of Small Miracles? →