Bully Pulpit Good Morning Friends, I was talking to a Marine yesterday about wounded warriors coming home and wanted to know the best way to help and I learned something worth sharing. He had a distain for institutions that wanted to coordinate help because it was as salt in a wound that people in the … Continue reading Bully Pulpit →

Transformed by the Change Agent Good Morning Friends, We have a long term house renovation plan. The problem is that every time we brighten up one space it makes another look dinger. The same is with us. Really God has taught us to walk a certain way and to talk a certain way and when … Continue reading Transformed by the Change Agent →

The Bread of Life Good Morning Friends, Well, through One by One Leadership Foundation we wired enough money down to our partners in Haiti to build a Helping Hands Bakery and the first bread baked there will be for a communion celebration. I think Jesus might like the idea. You see Jesus was born in … Continue reading The Bread of Life →

Cheer for all Super Winners! Good Morning Friends, Was God in the commercials during the game? Well Tebow finally got a contract and it was with T Mobile....Genetic engineering went humorously bizarre with a new breed of dog and some guy got to meet a llama and play Ping-Pong with Arnold in a beer commercial.... … Continue reading Cheer for all Super Winners! →

Heaven on Earth Good Morning Friends, People long for a taste of heaven on earth but too often look for it in all the wrong places. Heaven is a subject that is greatly debated in and outside of the Christian community. Some believe it is a literal place, while others believe it is "in the … Continue reading Heaven on Earth →

Praying the Psalms, Tying the Knot and Carrying the Cross. Good Morning Friends, The Psalms do not exactly fit the way people pray today any more than people grasp the full context of taking up a cross and the spiritual nature of marriage. We do not wear prayer shawls with tied tassels, though their image … Continue reading Praying the Psalms, Tying the Knot and Carrying the Cross. →

The Power of Land, Flowers, Hammers, Change and Songs Good Morning Friends, How Shall We Sing the Lord's Song? When Pete Seeger, iconic American folksinger heard that some people thought that his song, This Land is Your Land would be a good national anthem, he replied "no," and something to the effect that he could not … Continue reading The Power of Land, Flowers, Hammers, Change and Songs →

This Boy Jesus. Good Morning Friends, When I was born, the world came into being for me and I began to imagine all sorts of things. One thing we perhaps share in our musing is wondering what Jesus was like as a boy. Maybe God chose not to tell us much about Jesus' childhood and … Continue reading This Boy Jesus. →

Repentance Reconciles Yeast. Good Morning Friends, There is great debate amongst scholars as to whether the use of leaven in reference to the Kingdom of God is a positive or negative example. Some believe that it is positively speaking of the rise of the gospel in the world and others believe it is negatively speaking … Continue reading Repentance Reconciles Yeast. →

Communicating the Possibility of Salvation for All Good Morning, There is a bit of illusion with this whole thing of the internet as with any communication because what is being communicated is removed from the presence of the moment. Our minds are still filled with chatter and no God is not Google. Still all this … Continue reading Communicating the Possibility of Salvation for All →