What Questions Will You Have To Face This Lent?  Good Morning Friends,  When our self-centered hopes and dreams turn to ashes of disappointment and heartache, we need to find our place, our fulfillment, in God's mission of building His kingdom and our role in it. Even if it is a difficult one. Here we find scripture that … Continue reading What Questions Will You Have To Face This Lent? →

Are We Living by Faith One Day At A Time?  Good Morning Friends,  God loves us and knows that we worry about tomorrow, and that we do not like to think about our own mortality...our own addictions. That is why God gives us the certainty and truth of His Word, divine revelation and righteousness, that substitutes for … Continue reading Are We Living by Faith One Day At A Time? →

Are We Living for Christ Or Dying To Get Through That Yellow Light?  Good Morning Friends,  There are many people within what we call "church" that hurt today. A careful look in the rear view mirror shows that we lack love. We are filled with pride. We lack unity. Our reflection when we look in the mirror … Continue reading Are We Living for Christ Or Dying To Get Through That Yellow Light? →

What Are You Storing Up On The Cloud?    Good Morning Friends,    Today is Transfiguration Sunday and for many Protestants it is studied just before Lent. Roman Catholics celebrate the Transfiguration on the second Sunday of Lent. And in some churches it is a Holy Day observed on August 6, around the time of … Continue reading What Are You Storing Up On The Cloud? →

Are You Ready For Jesus To Return To Rule?  Good Morning Friends,  Today we look at some of the passages from Zachariah and Isaiah and they are some of the most messianic, apocalyptic and eschatological of all the writings in the Old Testament. We are looking at them because they testify to the Lord Jesus … Continue reading Are You Ready For Jesus To Return To Rule? →

What Is Victory In Christ?  Good Morning Friends,  I think that I have given up on double predestination, for God desires for all to be saved and God has a way of winning when things seem impossible. That God should choose us is comforting but that God would intentionally choose to reject a person is … Continue reading What Is Victory In Christ? →

Where Are You Casting Your Cares?  Good Morning Friends,  There is little doubt in my mind that you have already discovered that becoming a Christian does not make your problems go away. People, addictions and issues can rob us of an abundant life. Thankfully God has given us the advocacy of the Holy Spirit to … Continue reading Where Are You Casting Your Cares? →

Is Christ's Revealing Leadership Glorified In Your Life?  Good Morning Friends,  In Christ we have God's full message to humanity disclosed. In Jesus we have the supremacy of the Word made flesh. But too few see and believe. In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, he describes a scenario in which people take to be real … Continue reading Is Christ’s Revealing Leadership Glorified In Your Life? →

How Are You Growing?  Good Morning Friends,  In the liturgical year we are in ordinary time...a time of growth. In keeping with this focus today's devotional is about human development. And here we can see that we really grow in two ways...as individuals and as a body organized for a purpose. Both are needed. It … Continue reading How Are You Growing? →

Is Your Heart Hopeful Enough?  Good Morning Friends,  Only when God's perfect love fills us to overflowing, casting out all fear will we be transformed by the Holy Spirit... only then will we be able to love our enemies in ways that transform and do not exploit our desire to duty... only then will we know God's will and act … Continue reading Is Your Heart Hopeful Enough? →