Good Morning Friends,     People fast for all sorts of reasons and especially during Lent's journey of life's passage from winter to spring…from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday…from the season of death and penance to one of rebirth and celebration. The Bible presents several characters that fasted from food including Moses the lawgiver, King … Continue reading Why Fast During Lent And Does It Have To Be About Food? →

   Good Morning Friends,    Ok, it is a forty-six-day journey from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday. The forty days of Lent does not count Sundays. But I think we should if we are going to practice being married to God for the distance and get anything out of it. So, let's be all in … Continue reading Will We Repent This Lent Submitting To God’s Holy And Redemptive Love So We Might Glorify Jesus? →

   Good Morning Friends,    Ashes were used in Old Testament times to symbolize mourning, mortality, and penance.  People like Job in the Old Testament wore sackcloth and ashes to proclaim their desire to repent.  But ashes are not just an outward sign.  Ashes are to symbolize what is going on in the inside.   The prophet Joel tells us … Continue reading Will Our Hearts Find Beauty In The Ashes Of Repentance This Lent? →

    Good Morning Friends,     On balance I would suggest that influence is a force born out of our thoughts and feelings and sometimes a tangible palpable force that can be applied either positively or negatively, all based on relationships and at least in part on our response to them. So, this is about how … Continue reading Is The Holy Spirit Influencing You To Convert Others? →

   Good Morning Friends,    We have a challenge as Christians, and it is in responding to scripture's call for us to be perfect. And the thing is that most of us get the concept wrong from the beginning. Some think it is about not upsetting the apple cart until we realize that Jesus, the … Continue reading Are Our Hearts Hopeful, Happy And Holy? →

 Good Morning Friends,  Who do you take advice from? Who speaks into your life and you want to hear what they have to say? Maybe it is someone who matches your speech…or perhaps someone transformed. Peter to many was such a person. He was a leader of the new Christian movement but also authentically weak. … Continue reading Are You Practicing The Essentials Of The Christian Life? →

   Good Morning Friends,    Soon in the liturgical year we will begin the journey from the Transfiguration to the Cross. But today we frame this with other images of our spiritual history. Today we remember the connection between Babel and Pentecost. Today we remember that the Bible begins in a garden and ends in … Continue reading Do We Have A Failure To Communicate? →

Are You Living The Life Of A New Covenant?    Good Morning Friends,    Our God loves partnerships engaged in the divine purpose and we see exactly that in today's scripture passages. One is on Noah and the call to be fruitful and another asking us to affirm our belief. Are You Living The Life … Continue reading Are You Living The Life Of A New Covenant? →

How Are We To See A Peaceful Change In Ourselves?    Good Morning Friends,    Misdirection in the world is intentionally diverting our attention in order to mislead us. Magicians, advertisers, negotiators, politicians and thieves have this all in common. I do not want to rob you of that miracle of the moment, but the … Continue reading How Are We To See A Peaceful Change In Ourselves? →

   Good Morning Friends,    Misdirection in the world is intentionally diverting our attention in order to mislead us. Magicians, advertisers, negotiators, politicians and thieves have this all in common. I do not want to rob you of that miracle of the moment, but the world is filled with these shifting shadows. It is hard … Continue reading How Are We To See A Peaceful Change In Ourselves? →