Good Morning Friends,      My wife tells me that science has now discovered that we forget things when we walk through a doorway. I cannot explain it, but I believe she is right. Maybe that is a good reason to put up mezuzahs at the door of one's home. Related to this on … Continue reading Are Your Doors Open And Waiting To Catch The Spirit Of A Relationship? →

   Good Morning Friends,     The Bible has honest examples about human behavior outside the run of the mill. One King eats grass. People hear animals talk. David challenges a giant in one passage and drools in another. And Saul kills himself which is crazy. One guy even jumps into a pit on a cold … Continue reading Are We Out Of Our Minds? →

    Good Morning Friends,        Despite all the blessing we experience in the United States, suicide rates and emotional pain seems to be on the rise especially among youth and as the sadist time of the year, late January, post bowl games, carries over into the playoffs in professional football and the winter Flu and … Continue reading Do We See The Providence Of God When We Give Up Our Crutches And Follow Jesus? →

   Good Morning Friends,     That we all have the rhythms of a seven-day week is truly amazing for it is not something that is justified by the moon or the sun precisely although the four phases of the moon roughly correspond to seven days. For the believer, we need to consider the Sabbath, and … Continue reading Are You Living Your Life In The Rhythms Of God? →

   Good Morning Friends,       In the past I have mentioned that the parables of the patched cloth and the wineskins were sandwiched in between two similar confrontations between Jesus and the Pharisees. Today's lectionary selection has the other side of the sandwich and indeed, no joking it is related to bread…Holy Bread. The passage … Continue reading Do We Understand The Purpose Of The Law Of Love? →

Good morning, Brother John, I am neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet. However, I believe your call for institutional change may have passed. Like Saul, our nation has failed to be the people we have been called to be. We don't listen to, or for, the Word of God. Instead of becoming … Continue reading Comment →

    Good Morning Friends,    Today is Martin Luther King Day and we celebrate his birth, not his death back in April of 1968. And even though it took twenty years after Reverend King's death for him to be recognized in this way, and the reality that much of what he had hoped for has … Continue reading Do We Have A Peaceful Heart For God’s Dreams Of Justice To Be Our Own? →

   Good Morning Friends,    In Friday's scripture, we saw some men take the roof off a home in Capernaum for a paralytic to meet Jesus and in the Old Testament reading, the clamoring of the Israelites for an earthly king. And today we follow these plotlines as Jesus takes off the roof of religion … Continue reading What Is True Religion? →

   Good Morning Friends,    In a society that overvalued progress and personal achievement, even our spiritual lives could become performance oriented. We think about levels and phases and stages, but in the life of the Spirit these measurements are not important. The challenge is about personal responsibility and our paralysis. It is about the … Continue reading What Matters How We Find A Way To Overcome The Obstacles That Keep Us From Jesus? →

   Good Morning Friends,     In the past we have contemplated what it was like to hear from God and today we further explore the problems we have when we do not hear from God as set forth in the book of Samuel. Then we explore the problems of not feeling in the life of … Continue reading How Will We Respond To God’s Guidance Motivating Us To Be Obedient To The Spirit Of Love? →