Are You A Child At Heart?  Good Morning Friends,  Children are kingdom people. They can be aggravating, they can drive an adult nuts but they are the future and they need to be provided access to the resources to fulfill their roles in it. As Christians, we need to reach out to them whether or not they reach … Continue reading Are You A Child At Heart? →

 Truly What Is Needed to Sustain Our Faith?  Good Morning Friends,  Recently we installed new elders and deacons during worship. As part of the experience previously ordained elders and deacons lay hands on the new class as a public display and visible sign of our connection in ministry. A goodly portion of the congregation came down … Continue reading Truly What Is Needed to Sustain Our Faith? →

Do You Know How to Pray?  Good Morning Friends,  Amazing though this may sound, God really loves to spend time with us in prayer. It is a verb that turns us into a better noun and is at the confluence our spiritual lives with leadership as a noun becoming activated in us as a verb … Continue reading Do You Know How to Pray? →

Do You Have Such A Family Likeness?  Good Morning Friends,  I touched on this last week and so did Pope Francis in Philadelphia on Sunday. I took the scripture from the position of the great diversity of expression of institutional churches but he instead takes it from the perspective of the manifestation of the Baptism … Continue reading Do You Have Such A Family Likeness? →

Who Has the Spiritual Unction in Prayer to Bring Us Together for Confession?  Good Morning Friends,  Nothing in scripture comes back void. Some of it is hard reading, but it too can be as examples of the Kingdom breaking through. Today we see that God attends and measures all the details against His planned Kingdom … Continue reading Who Has the Spiritual Unction in Prayer to Bring Us Together for Confession? →

What is the Origin of Mercy?  Good Morning Friends,  A TIME magazine issue in 1984 presented a startling cover. It pictured a prison cell where two men sat on metal folding chairs. The young man wore a black turtleneck sweater, blue jeans and white running shoes. The older man was dressed in a white robe … Continue reading What is the Origin of Mercy? →

 Do You Believe You Are Loved By God?  Good Morning Friends,  From time to time, I find myself wanting to control the flow of love in this world and the love of others, making a judgment call about its distribution. This is of course crazy thinking. Perhaps it is not my natural inclination to release love, especially when, as I look … Continue reading Do You Believe You Are Loved By God? →

What Exactly Has God Prepared for Us?  Good Morning Friends,  Today on the eve of a blood red moon Pope Francis is in the City of Brotherly Love and I imagine the topic of the Day will be about Amor...love...passion and compassion. People have been preparing to welcome Pope Francis to the city of Philadelphia … Continue reading What Exactly Has God Prepared for Us? →

Do You Know the Secret of Contentment?  Good Morning Friends, The joy of the Gospel is certainly an invitation deep inside of us that practically orders us to rejoice. It is like celebrating a new birth wrapped in a prayer that resonates with our desire to have a meaningful and joyful life. Oh we still … Continue reading Do You Know the Secret of Contentment? →

Does Our Church Produce People of Salt? Good Morning Friends, Behind today's question is an even harder question and that concerns whether God will really send people to hell? And the answer is yes, but we do not have to go. Confused, well let me put it a little differently as explained in the book … Continue reading Does Our Church Produce People of Salt? →