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? →

Are You Ready to Die? 21Good Morning Friends, I didn't grow up observing Lent. Now, though, I observe Lent each year, and I learn so much about God and myself in the process. I have found that Lent is much richer than simply giving up chocolate. Which I have not done. It is a good … Continue reading Are You Ready to Die? →

Are You Ready To Walk With Jesus? Good Morning Friends, Well we gave mom a great send off yesterday to join with dad. Thanks to all who shared in it. Some of it was a traditional memorial service and some took the road less travelled...on a narrow path. So, now standing at the crossroads we need to … Continue reading Are You Ready To Walk With Jesus? →

Do You Believe In The Surprise of the Resurrection? Good Morning Friends, This movement toward spring we call Lent is not going to be of much good to you unless you are engaged in the rather surprising thing that happens just after Lent. Jesus Christ surprised people because of his standard for morality that requires … Continue reading Do You Believe In The Surprise of the Resurrection? →

Lord are You Really Going to Go All the Way to the Cross in My Life? Good Morning Friends, The Season of Lent is a time of year that gives us the opportunity to stop and choose who we trust. This time of year we once again embark on a journey during the season toward … Continue reading Lord are You Really Going to Go All the Way to the Cross in My Life? →

Are We Like Doubting Thomas? Good Morning Friends, We are a people of hurt every one of us....physical pain, emotional pain, addictions, cancers and angers plague all those in the pews. Sadly it is how we identify who we are. The question though is whether or not we want to own our hurt forever. The question is whether we want … Continue reading Are We Like Doubting Thomas? →