Are You Ready For Jesus To Return To Rule?  Good Morning Friends,  Today we look at some of the passages from Zachariah and Isaiah and they are some of the most messianic, apocalyptic and eschatological of all the writings in the Old Testament. We are looking at them because they testify to the Lord Jesus … Continue reading Are You Ready For Jesus To Return To Rule? →

What Is Victory In Christ?  Good Morning Friends,  I think that I have given up on double predestination, for God desires for all to be saved and God has a way of winning when things seem impossible. That God should choose us is comforting but that God would intentionally choose to reject a person is … Continue reading What Is Victory In Christ? →

Where Are You Casting Your Cares?  Good Morning Friends,  There is little doubt in my mind that you have already discovered that becoming a Christian does not make your problems go away. People, addictions and issues can rob us of an abundant life. Thankfully God has given us the advocacy of the Holy Spirit to … Continue reading Where Are You Casting Your Cares? →

Is Christ's Revealing Leadership Glorified In Your Life?  Good Morning Friends,  In Christ we have God's full message to humanity disclosed. In Jesus we have the supremacy of the Word made flesh. But too few see and believe. In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, he describes a scenario in which people take to be real … Continue reading Is Christ’s Revealing Leadership Glorified In Your Life? →

How Are You Growing?  Good Morning Friends,  In the liturgical year we are in ordinary time...a time of growth. In keeping with this focus today's devotional is about human development. And here we can see that we really grow in two ways...as individuals and as a body organized for a purpose. Both are needed. It … Continue reading How Are You Growing? →

Is Your Heart Hopeful Enough?  Good Morning Friends,  Only when God's perfect love fills us to overflowing, casting out all fear will we be transformed by the Holy Spirit... only then will we be able to love our enemies in ways that transform and do not exploit our desire to duty... only then will we know God's will and act … Continue reading Is Your Heart Hopeful Enough? →

Are You Walking In The Light Of The Righteous Path?  Good Morning Friends,  By worshipping...working and waiting in the Lord we live. But the walking part, step by step is the deal too. For Jesus walked down to the river. Up to the mountains and down through the valleys. He walked with disciples and friends … Continue reading Are You Walking In The Light Of The Righteous Path? →

Have You Opened The Repentance Box?  Good Morning Friends,  Today I am meditating on the paradox of Jesus being both Lamb and Shepherd while reading the parable of Lost Sheep. And I cannot help but think that we too are a paradox of being both alive and dead... of being saints and sinners...of simultaneously being … Continue reading Have You Opened The Repentance Box? →

Are You Ready To Journey Into the Light Of Eternity?  Good Morning Friends,    Friends, it is a paradox of living in two kingdoms but having one King. Never the less it is our duty to be worshipping the King of Light and the King of Eternity learning that they are one. But for now in our culture … Continue reading Are You Ready To Journey Into the Light Of Eternity? →

Do We Have A Failure To Communicate Our Part In The Kingdom Of God?  Good Morning Friends,  Soon in the liturgical year we will begin the journey from the Transfiguration to the Cross. But today we frame this with other images of our spiritual history. So today we remember the connection between Babel and Pentecost. … Continue reading Do We Have A Failure To Communicate Our Part In The Kingdom Of God? →