Is The Life You Are Living the Real Life?  Good Morning Friends,  Too often we do not embrace prayer as a creative path to truth. For me prayer, like studying scripture, has become an art of discovery where I begin to hear who I really am and also begin to see who I might become. … Continue reading Is The Life You Are Living the Real Life? →

Do You Know How To Listen With Love?  Good Morning Friends,  Both Mary and Martha were followers of Jesus. They both loved Jesus but how they viewed life and witnessed about Christ were very different. When it came to duty and devotion, those internal motivators, they were very different. Here we learn that it is … Continue reading Do You Know How To Listen With Love? →

18How Are You Like A Seed In A Cultivation Box?  Good Morning Friends,  The Bible is full of images of plants, vines and branches. The Kingdom is like a mustard seed. The lilies of the field are taken care of by God. The wheat is white and ready for harvest. Along this image of thinking today … Continue reading How Are You Like A Seed In A Cultivation Box? →

Are You Engaging Disciples in the Faith?  Good Morning Friends,  Do you know how important love is for commerce and the governance of activities in society? Well let me tell you that it is critical...it is the very glue that holds us all together. No, not the love of money but the love of God...our … Continue reading Are You Engaging Disciples in the Faith? →

Is This a Prayer that Works or a Work that is Prayer?  Top of Form Good Morning Friends,  The supernatural power of God activated through the devotion of people of faith, not just talking to God but more importantly listening in solitude, is an act of worship designed to engage God's heart and Spirit as … Continue reading Is This a Prayer that Works or a Work that is Prayer? →

Does Practice Make Perfect?  Good Morning Friends,    There is a tension in today's scripture...a little bit of heaven and a little bit of earth in which we prepare for the final game...the last performance. It struck a chord for me yesterday as we were running through two bell pieces to be shared to prepare … Continue reading Does Practice Make Perfect? →

Do You Have Spiritual Capital...Do You Have Love?  Good Morning Friends,  One of my friends Bill Milliken coined the phrase, Tough Love, and another one of my friends, Reid Carpenter coined the phrase, Spiritual Capital. They complement each other in interesting ways to change people's lives for they are from the same root. An example … Continue reading Do You Have Spiritual Capital…Do You Have Love? →

 Do You Have The Right Friends?  Good Morning Friends,  The election of people to public offices is heating up in Mexico and in Haiti and even here and Florida and the thing is that it can get nasty and ugly. In these situations we often trust our families and friends. We trust our government in all … Continue reading Do You Have The Right Friends? →

20Do You Know the Will of God When You See It, Smell It and Taste It?  Good Morning Friends,  Ever notice that you leave your normal sense of taste behind at the airport departure gate when you get on board a plane and cruise to a level of 30,000 thousand feet. The flavor of everything … Continue reading Do You Know the Will of God When You See It, Smell It and Taste It? →

Are You Lonely?  Good Morning Friends,  Paul writes to the Corinthians in response to the existential loneliness, the emptiness inside that revisits them and us when we embrace a secular ecstasy that is born out of evil. At the heart of the problem is our separation from God...death. It is all a bit of a mystery but … Continue reading Are You Lonely? →