Good Morning Friends,    As I was reading today's lectionary selections it dawned on me as I connected the dots that there is a process and vision here that God has given us a model, and we are to use it in expressing our emotions in our relationship with God but also each other. What … Continue reading Are You A Neighbor Bearing Fruit That Reflects The Sacrificial Love Of Jesus For The Community? →

    Good Morning Friends,     Today's lectionary texts confront us with a challenge from multiple perspectives and attitudes on the tension of who is being favored by God and who is being favored by the societies in which we live. And it is troubling for the oppressed do so often become the oppressors. But is … Continue reading Do You See The Value Of Sharing Privilege Now? →

 Good Morning Friends,    God's power reveals what is inside a person and a person is judged on that against the will of God. It is not something you can figure out and earn as an act of service. It must be out of love as an act of faith though the Grace of God … Continue reading Are We Praying For God’s Purpose Of The End Game To Be Revealed In Our Lives? →

   Good Morning Friends,  All Christian believers are to submit to one another…much like the church submitting to Christ. But there is a problem for there are many false teachers and even for those blessed to hear the Word, it takes much more character to submit to the will of God than most think. We … Continue reading Can You Hear The Groans Of Creation In Your Own Experience Of The Kingdom Of God? →

   Good Morning Friends,    The last couple of weeks we have been exploring how Jesus faced the challenges of the political and religious leaders who tried to trip him up by asking challenging questions related to his behavior and what they thought to be of importance, namely their continued status in positions of power. … Continue reading How Will The Way You Live Your Sabbaths and Sundays Be Changed After The Pandemic? →

   Good Morning Friends,    Today's Gospel text is about Blind Bartimaeus, and it strikes me that he seems to have lost his family. He may have had the foundation for love but needed a spark to ignite it. The interactions we have in this regard are the joys of life. This is where Jesus … Continue reading Will The Remnant Be Enough? →

   Good Morning Friends,  Friends, the process by which we discern an answer to today's question is caught up in our reaction to God's love that can, if we let it, change us, bind us together and build us up collectively while freeing us from the boundaries in our own minds. And it is in … Continue reading Are You Seeking Unity With Christ’s Radical Means Of Justice? →

    Good Morning Friends,     Good and evil, light and darkness are opposites. They seem to have nothing in common with each other except that they are examples of what happens in our brain when we are deciding and discerning or even experiencing cognitive dissonance. It is like facing the connection between faith and doubt. … Continue reading Do You Know How To Live Victoriously? →

   Good Morning Friends,    The world is filled with faithful and unfaithful servants. Thankfully we have been set free to be slaves of righteousness instead of slaves to sin. We have been chosen for a purpose but also can choose to ignore it. You see, the purpose of being freed is to bring us … Continue reading Who Rules Our Lives? →

   Good Morning Friends,    There is a law in nature that nothing takes more than it needs and if it does death follows. Sadly, the earth has a growing cancer that believes it has the right to keep more than it can ever use. The air is polluted. The oceans dying. Species are becoming … Continue reading What Is Wrong With This World? →