What is Your Image of the Power of God in His Church? Good Morning Friends,  Today is Pentecost Sunday, the Easter Season has ended. Today the fulfillment of the Feast of Pentecost is celebrated in the coming of the Holy Spirit and in the formation of the Church. Words rarely do justice to the topic of … Continue reading What is Your Image of the Power of God in His Church? →

What Do You Want To Remember? Good Morning Friends, We are now in Memorial Day Weekend, for the holiday has extended beyond just the one day when it was moved to a Monday. We celebrate it to remember those who died for our freedom. But in many ways as a culture we have forgotten its … Continue reading What Do You Want To Remember? →

Honestly Have You Ever Doubted?  Good Morning Friends,  Today's scripture, about Jesus healing a boy, is sandwiched in between the story of the Transfiguration, that mountaintop experience, and the passage of Jesus telling His disciples, as they travel in Galilee, that He was going to be betrayed, murdered and that He would after three days rise, … Continue reading Honestly Have You Ever Doubted? →

Are You Walking with God? Good Morning Friends,   According to medical authorities, walking is one of the most profitable forms of physical exercise. It stimulates the heart and lungs, strengthens the bones and muscles, increases the blood flow throughout the body, and reportedly contributes to the loss of excess weight. Because of its multiple … Continue reading Are You Walking with God? →

Are You a Real Advocate for Education?  Good Morning Friends,  There is a theology of place that needs to come alive in institutions of learning...a Spirit that both takes a sense of community into schools and takes that schooling out into the larger community. And I believe the people God has deposited in these teachings … Continue reading Are You a Real Advocate for Education? →

Pathetic or Promising?  Good Morning Friends,  When I look back over my life, so far, it is only in those times and small ways that I responded to God's will that made the difference. When I learned to respond out of sympathetic sadness, choosing to move in compassion not contemptuous pity, then I was aroused … Continue reading Pathetic or Promising? →

Are You Part of a Community of Prayer?  Good Morning Friends,  Today we are called to take our vision of enthusiasm to the cross, the throne and to the streets. We are asked to see with the eyes of our hearts connected to an encounter with the divine. We are called to be alert to God's activity around … Continue reading Are You Part of a Community of Prayer? →

Do You Appreciate the Joy and Wonder of Life? Good Morning Friends, It does not begin with love, as is I believe the typical first Christian response, but of awe and the therapeutic cleansing of the soul. For the Jew congregating in the Second Temple today's Psalm would have been like an order of worship. When … Continue reading Do You Appreciate the Joy and Wonder of Life? →

Do You Have A Soul-Friend?  Good Morning Friends,  All of us want to be accepted by others...even God wants love. That is how friendships are formed. So we get together in groups that agree to accept us in their life as we accept them into ours. We become teams, choirs, families, businesses, friends, organizations and … Continue reading Do You Have A Soul-Friend? →

Are You Like Me, Practically Imperfect?  Good Morning Friends,  Often times I will send out these devotions and they will not be complete. I resolved it in my mind but run out of time to do it all. You see, there is something about these devotions that are always not quite right, but somehow that … Continue reading Are You Like Me, Practically Imperfect? →