Are You Ready For A Healthier And Happier 2021?    Good Morning Friends,    Most people are ready to say goodbye and good night to 2021, glad it is over. It started out with such hope and then turned into something the history books will be evaluating for decades. On Palm Sunday our choir sang … Continue reading Are You Ready For A Healthier And Happier 2021? →

What Are You Looking Forward To In 2021 That Will Live On?    Good Morning Friends,    We remember in Southwest Florida the hurricane seasons when the eye of the storms went over our homes and we remember the last hurricane season because even though there were a record number of named storms we were … Continue reading What Are You Looking Forward To In 2021 That Will Live On? →

   Good Morning Friends,    Seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling…sensing God is wonderful but knowing God's will and desiring to fulfill it is another deal. Trusting and obeying is hard work that only Jesus makes easier. So, Do You Think You Know God's Love?    Scripture: Now by this we may be sure that we know him, if we … Continue reading Do You Think You Know God’s Love? →

Good Morning Friends,    The holidays were originally known as holy days. Unfortunately, holidays are not always happy days. Ask the people in Nashville affected by the street bombing. As many of us celebrate the connection with our family and friends, many try to cope with the agony of being alone in a pandemic or … Continue reading Will We Find Rest On The Way To A Sanctuary This Season? →

Do You Have The Face Of Faith Fulfilled When You Have A Vision Of Volunteering To Glorify God?    Good Morning Friends,    Yesterday was the Feast Day of Saint Stephen, the second day of Christmas. And it is all tied up in the idea of the incarnation, for Stephen demonstrates the nature of what … Continue reading Do You Have The Face Of Faith Fulfilled When You Have A Vision Of Volunteering To Glorify God? →

 Good Morning Friends,  There were lots of important people just a few miles from where Jesus was born. There was the Roman governor and Herod the Great and Jewish priests, the Pharisees, Sadducees, and the Scribes all who lived in and around Jerusalem. And close by the Levites too. But the ones God choose to … Continue reading Why Is The Ordinary So Important? →

 Good Morning Friends,    There is a time when human words and mortal flesh get in the way of God's plan. Today's scripture relates to this challenge for us. And we get a sense of it in the rhythm of some secular songs as well as Christmas hymns, and particularly, I think in Ralph Von … Continue reading Will We Recognize The Power Of The Sound Of Silence? →

   Good Morning Friends,  The Bible is filled with all kinds of surprising events. How we view them depends on what we are expecting. And what we know, or we think we know matters in a big way. How people viewed John the Baptist is the case in point today. Many still honor the presumed … Continue reading Are We Expecting The Greatest Miracle Of All To Be Part Of Our Lives? →

   Good Morning Friends,     Ever wonder why most everybody is so happy at Christmas? Well, maybe not so much this year for it is hard to celebrate together. Anyway, today Christmas is just a few days away and though it is like no other Christmas I can remember there will still be singing and … Continue reading What Can We Learn From This Joyous Mary and Why She Sings? →

 Will We Hear, See, Love, and Share About God Through The Story Of A Transformational Child?  Good Morning Friends,    Today on the Winter Solstice perhaps more people will be contemplating the convergence of Saturn and Jupiter than where God is in the common Biblical story line involving today's scripture. But if you lean into … Continue reading Will We Hear, See, Love, and Share About God Through The Story Of A Transformational Child? →