Where Are You Living?  Good Morning Friends,  Here we are on the Lenten journey from Transfiguration to Transformation…from Fast to Feast. And there is a message here in the crossing that we need to bring home for its relevance of how we experience Jesus in this life and the next and forgive me for not … Continue reading Where Are You Living? →

 Are you Neglecting To Pray?  Good Morning Friends,    Let's face it, there is a central difficulty involved in grasping the nature of the soul and in caring for it. Logic of its deep empathy is at odds with our reasoning mind and the pathway of nurturing the soul through prayer is avoided by most. … Continue reading Are you Neglecting To Pray? →

Is The Place You Call Church Bearing The Right Fruit?  Good Morning Friends,  Today we explore the serious business of bearing the fruit of joy. To bring this approach home I share with you a thought of C.S. Lewis. You see he presented a case that our Lord finds our desires too weak. We fool … Continue reading Is The Place You Call Church Bearing The Right Fruit? →

What If I Do Not Want To Be Totally Depraved?  Good Morning Friends,  Today's text poses some heavy theological questions that Calvin undoubtedly used to support his view of the human condition. But as I think about the scripture and what I think I know of theology, I must wonder through the tears as I … Continue reading What If I Do Not Want To Be Totally Depraved? →

Will We Walk In Or Reject The Prophetic Paths?  Good Morning Friends,  James and John were naturally talented and dedicated to the Lord but more boisterous than the reading of the books in the Bible with their names would indicate. In fact, they were called the sons of thunder. Their mother, like every mother wanted … Continue reading Will We Walk In Or Reject The Prophetic Paths? →

Why Is Repentance So Hard?  Good Morning Friends,  Well, we are into Lent and have been reading a lot of Old Testament scripture on obedience and repentance. And it should begin to soak in from the story of Jonah that there is nothing that can separate us from the power of God's forgiveness and redemptive … Continue reading Why Is Repentance So Hard? →

Are You Giving For The Right Reasons?  Good Morning Friends,  Some who preach the prosperity Gospel promote the wrong kind of charity. It is too much about self-interest and what is in it for the giver instead of love of God and others. Oh, no doubt, God can use them all but when someone loves … Continue reading Are You Giving For The Right Reasons? →

Do You Remember Where You Have Come?  Good Morning Friends,  Students leaving Immokalee on a trajectory of success, and perhaps college debt, are often told by the world to forget where they have come from, which unfortunately perpetuates the brain drain of this community for the best future results. That is why at One by … Continue reading Do You Remember Where You Have Come? →

What Sets Us Apart?  Good Morning Friends,  God has a way of upping the ante when we think we have made it even after we have achieved something. I think that is to make sure we never lose sight of our need for God but also to challenge us to set our sights on an … Continue reading What Sets Us Apart? →

What Is Fair?  Good Morning Friends,  Let's not pull any punches. Today's text does not. We all have a laundry list of transgression and we really do not want today's question answered for we really know we do not measure up. But we are not quit up to a rigorous moral inventory either. Frankly we … Continue reading What Is Fair? →