Are You Ready to Confess Your Sins to God? Good Morning Friends, In Christ we have salvation as a gift of grace. But what is our responsibility? Maybe you're confused about the various requirements different Christians say accompany being a follower of Christ. Galatians raises questions of law. So what rules should a Christian follow? … Continue reading Are You Ready to Confess Your Sins to God? →

Are You Ready to Reevaluate Your Priority Spending? Good Morning Friends, I am always looking for opportunities to nudge others to experience new ways to serve God. Sometimes I will prompt others to experience the multiplying effect of God's love by giving a specific person a $20 bill with the contingency that they must give … Continue reading Are You Ready to Reevaluate Your Priority Spending? →

Are You Ready to Dive Below the Surface? Good Morning Friends, Knowing God through experiences is priceless. It is so different from having a theological background. Indeed an ounce of spiritual sense is worth a pound of book learning. And so it is in the story of the woman in the home of Simon the … Continue reading Are You Ready to Dive Below the Surface? →

Are Our Hearts Changed, Together and Guiding us to Action? Good Morning Friends, Today we have an invitation to come and become clean... well at least cleaner. Today we have an invitation to live a Godly life in a corrupt world. Today we hopefully get going with a purpose to build up a loving community. … Continue reading Are Our Hearts Changed, Together and Guiding us to Action? →

19Are You Praying to the False God of Unlimited Options? Good Morning Friends, Last year Burger King stopped offering the option to "Have it Your Way." Maybe they realized that ultimate freedom of choice is a problem. The burden of decision making is shifted in our society and it is not all good. It is … Continue reading Are You Praying to the False God of Unlimited Options? →

8Do We Really Know How To Best Use Lent? Good Morning Friends, Lent is a time to examine ourselves as to the status of our faith. Lent is a time to get to know ourselves better and to discover new things about Jesus Christ in us. Lent is a time of self-denial but also growth. … Continue reading Do We Really Know How To Best Use Lent? →

How Do You Know If God Is Leading You? Good Morning Friends, I never much cared for the movie "Jerry McGuire" or the character played by Tom Cruise in it. Regardless it does have a line in it that has entered the American lexicon. The line is "Show me the money." It has been establish … Continue reading How Do You Know If God Is Leading You? →

Are You Ready to Choose Joy? Good Morning Friends, I do so like to be right. Perhaps that is why I like to solved puzzles, but today is not about solving puzzles. It is about being in a place of doubt and anger in the knowledge that we can never really understand the contradictions of … Continue reading Are You Ready to Choose Joy? →

What Are We Running To? Good Morning Friends, Jonah had a bad case of unhealthy emotional spirituality. Jonah was disobedient and of a faultfinding, complaining disposition and yet he is not to be taken lightly. We learn from him about how God puts us back on the right track when we are distressed in attitude … Continue reading What Are We Running To? →

Why Do We Run from God? Good Morning Friends, Our Pastor at Moorings is beginning a sermon series on the four chapters of Jonah. So we are going to be studying Jonah for much longer than it takes to read this short book. Now most of us are familiar with this story. Kids love it, … Continue reading Why Do We Run from God? →