The Simpler Life Good Morning Friends, Last Friday as I was driving home through sheet rain in a thunder storm, lighting hit our house twice. I arrived home to see my wife, daughter and son in the hallway huddled together. The Chamber of Commerce will not tell you, but Florida is the lighting strike capital of the world.   The first … Continue reading The Simpler Life →

The Place Where John Saw Jesus Good Morning Friends, Back in 1978 I visited the Holy Land with my mother and father and brother. It was a trip organized by the Christian Businessmen in our area. Back then I was reading from the RSV Bible. It was a wonderful trip. I was reminiscing about it … Continue reading The Place Where John Saw Jesus →

Wide Awake Good Morning Friends, In this day and age we need to be awake to our temporal interests. Folk wisdom has phrased it like this.  “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man, healthy wealthy and wise.” Or one of my favorites, “The early bird gets the worm.  It is true both temporally and … Continue reading Wide Awake →

Woven Together Good Morning Friends, Last week I had dinner with my mother and two other woman at her assisted living facility. The combined age of our table was 350 years. One of the woman had just celebrated her 100th birthday. It is amazing to realize that this woman had breathed in and out 854 million … Continue reading Woven Together →

The Apprentice and the Master Good Afternoon Friends, Make no mistake about this reality, as a human having the same mind as Christ, if only for a moment, brings one to a place of humility.  Yes there is a transformation. If one believes, Christ brings new life and new rules, Christ rewrites history before time, in … Continue reading The Apprentice and the Master →

When Jesus Listens Good Morning Friends, Today we explore what it means to be a wise counselor. Today we explore, as a pilgrim in this life, the emotions, ideas and implications revealed When Jesus Listens. Scripture: Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and … Continue reading When Jesus Listens →

Who is Your Daddy? Good Morning Friends, There are different kinds of fathers. There are birth fathers, who can be really great, family fathers through adoption, who can bring great healing, historical fathers of countries and institutions, who have created the culture in which we live, surrogate fathers that serve as role models… but the … Continue reading Who is Your Daddy? →

A Call Waiting Good Morning Friends, Most of the important phone calls we receive now seem to be on our cell phones but then last night we got one on our land line. Initially we thought …oh, just another robo call, but this one was screened as coming from Naples Community Hospital. Amy, my wife, … Continue reading A Call Waiting →

How do you love God? Good Morning Friends, Today we ask what may be the most important question you will ever be asked to answer. It is beautifully unique to each of us and uniformly simple. Answering the question helps us to discover, if we are honest, our purpose. The rules are set out in … Continue reading How do you love God? →

Combining Christian Culture and Human Habits Good Morning Friends, Yesterday I got up and wrote a devotional. Today I am up writing again. I have been doing this for three years now and it is an example in my life of Combining Christian Culture and Human Habits. Scripture: Start children off on the way they should go, … Continue reading Combining Christian Culture and Human Habits →