Good Morning Friends, Today we revisit a recent lectionary selection about disappointed and disillusioned people who accuse God of being unfair. If you go to institutional church, you most likely have seen the problem first hand. But today let us interpret this issue through a passage from Romans. So, in review, we got a … Continue reading What Is The Good Of Serving God If We Are Unsure Of Divine Will? →

 Good Morning Friends,  Every religious Jew knew the Gospel according to Leviticus 23 for it contains the wise plan of God for the ages. Jews are celebrating the Day of Atonement today, but it is for Christians too. It is the foundation for the ways in which we worship. Many people will be fasting today … Continue reading How Will You Celebrate The Feasts of God? →

For The Christian, Is Seeing Believing Or is Believing Seeing?  Good Morning Friends,  Today's devotional is not about Christians relationship with Donald Trump nor will it tell you how to convert Moslems seeking to learn about the Trinity. But it will address the issue of antagonism prevalent in the cultures of time and in a … Continue reading For The Christian, Is Seeing Believing Or is Believing Seeing? →

Are We Living Into The Light Of The Word Made Flesh?    Good Morning Friends,  Yesterday was World Communion Sunday. And a friend of mine after the service by the name of John asked if I could write about the topic of the Word made Flesh that is addressed so creatively in the Book of … Continue reading Are We Living Into The Light Of The Word Made Flesh? →

How Does Believing In God's Faithfulness Make Us Well?  Good Morning Friends,  The Bible has several examples of mental illness and treatments too. We have a king eating grass and being humbled in the process so that he might be used by God after a time in the book of Daniel. The therapy being time. … Continue reading How Does Believing In God’s Faithfulness Make Us Well? →

 Good Morning Friends,  Today's lectionary selection from Joel reads a lot like Revelation 9 and all the woes of the end times. Part of the reading is about the time when Joel, a Temple prophet and lay botanist, lived and the occasion of an unprecedented locust plague which he compared to the assault of revile … Continue reading If Jesus Defeated The Devil and Death Why Do We Still Have To Fight Evil? →

Do We Have The Persistence And Faith To Be Good At Serving God Through Difficulties?  Good Morning Friends,  In today's lectionary selection God is addressing disappointed and disillusioned people who accuse God of being unfair. We got a sense of the situation in the story of Jonah yesterday and now an echo of this problem … Continue reading Do We Have The Persistence And Faith To Be Good At Serving God Through Difficulties? →

How Would You Choose To Pray When You Are Annoyed?  Good Morning Friends,  Today's topic could fill a book. It is about our struggle to communicate with God in a way that builds a relationship. Thankfully we are given a format for doing just that even if our emotions are clouding our thinking. Yes, maybe … Continue reading How Would You Choose To Pray When You Are Annoyed? →

Are You Doing What You Ought To Have Done?  Good Morning Friends,  Get ready for the work is not done and self-pity is pointless. There is no reasonable respite from our obligation to God nor the ever-watchful eye of God. No person ever makes God his debtor. And this should be a cure for our … Continue reading Are You Doing What You Ought To Have Done? →

When Faced With People Who Are Intolerant and Prideful, Will We Still Be Humble Servants?  Good Morning Friends,  We have all heard it said that pride comes before the fall and we get a sense of this in today's scripture readings that both hint that there is greater hope in humility than puffed up conceit. … Continue reading When Faced With People Who Are Intolerant and Prideful, Will We Still Be Humble Servants? →