Truly Do You Choose To Respect Others?  Good Morning Friends,  Today we explore the challenge of relationships and the opportunity to learn how to love. It is about sacrifices and beauty and purity and intimacy. It is about whether we are willing to submit to seeing through the eyes of another person. It is about … Continue reading Truly Do You Choose To Respect Others? →

Are You Ready To Join The Celebration?  Good Morning Friends,  The definition of prodigal has multiple meanings. We have come to associate it with all the aspects of one of the most well-known parable stories in the Bible. It is both characterized by the wasteful and demanding son but also the lavish father. The story is traditionally referred to as "The … Continue reading Are You Ready To Join The Celebration? →

What Are We Do To When We Have Been Hurt?  Good Morning Friends,  Today we explore the lectionary readings for a little wisdom from the stories of Joseph being sold into slavery and the parable of the wicked vineyard tenants. They tell the stories of life not always being fair and the reality of people … Continue reading What Are We Do To When We Have Been Hurt? →

What Will Your Life Be Compared To After You Die?  Good Morning Friends,  Friends we are a blessed people and our blessings will grow when we share our abundance for those who follow in our footsteps. Know the truth of what Jeremiah is teaching us for it is based in real life and can be … Continue reading What Will Your Life Be Compared To After You Die? →

Are You Ashamed Of Your Personal Faith?  Good Morning Friends,  What we say we believe collectively and what we actually believe as individuals can differ substantially. One of the problems is that it is not always easy to understand exactly how or why it is that Jesus dying on the cross makes us right with … Continue reading Are You Ashamed Of Your Personal Faith? →

Are You A Faithful Witness To The Truth In This World Of Nonsense?  Good Morning Friends,  The world is a pretty crazy place. New addictions are around every corner and marketing people skilled in the behavioral sciences are facilitating it for profit... we so easily fall prey to them. It is as if we are … Continue reading Are You A Faithful Witness To The Truth In This World Of Nonsense? →

How Will The Next Generation Know?  Good Morning Friends,  Today we study the Shema from Deuteronomy and some related text. The Shema is the Jewish creed that opens synagogue worship. It is said twice a day and translates as "hear". It is a reminder that we are to teach our children through the words of … Continue reading How Will The Next Generation Know? →

How Do You Make God Look Good?  Good Morning Friends.  God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life that is wholly yielded to seeking the God and submitting with praise and purpose to a plan that recognizes the dangers of taking shortcuts. Friends, if our life is out of order we will be … Continue reading How Do You Make God Look Good? →

Do You See Below the Surface?  Good Morning Friends,  Today we look at the nature, context and actions we call worship to discover that we can be doing worship type things, like singing hymns and listening to sermons and giving at the offering, and even taking communion, but still not enter into the place of … Continue reading Do You See Below the Surface? →

Are You Doing Your Part?  Good Morning Friends,  Some people go to church to have their needs met. Typically they end up being disappointed because they are under the false impression and expectation that sitting in a pew listening to a sermon and music is all God expects of us. Indeed it is sad but true … Continue reading Are You Doing Your Part? →