Are You Ready To Take The Next Step?  Good Morning Friends,  Sometimes life can be confusing and knowing the right thing to do can baffle us. Often it takes encouragement and faith and courage and desire as well as obedience but the one thing we often miss is a dependence on Jesus. Are You Ready … Continue reading Are You Ready To Take The Next Step? →

Do You Find Intercessory Prayer Easy?    Good Morning Friends,  Prayers for healing the sick was deemed a vital function of the early Christian Church. But this is not something of the past alone. The problem today is that we do not take it seriously. Too often we turn prayer into a tradition of shallow … Continue reading Do You Find Intercessory Prayer Easy? →

Does Your Personality Reflect A Unity With God?  Good Morning Friends,  It is said that no person is an island and so too it is with our personality. Our personality is unique but interactive. Without a doubt we are all different, however there is this idea that we are all connected in ways we cannot … Continue reading Does Your Personality Reflect A Unity With God? →

Are You Ready For A Leap of Faith?  Good Morning Friends,    Growing up in Florida along the beach as teenagers we used to fish the pilings for mangrove snapper, sheepshead, snook and mackerel. These groins have fallen out of fashion as ways of stabilizing the beach erosion during storms but they were fun for fishing. Gradually nature, … Continue reading Are You Ready For A Leap of Faith? →

Can You Handle The Truth?  Good Morning Friends,  Some people want it and others avoid it. I have found from experience that confronting people with it without love, will get a response that is not pleasant. The basic problem is that we deceive ourselves to the truth. Can You Handle The Truth?  Scripture: Then Jesus said … Continue reading Can You Handle The Truth? →

Is the Messianic Kingdom Perfect?  Good Morning Friends,  The Messianic Age according to Wikipedia is a theological term referring to a future time of universal peace and brotherhood on the earth, without crime, war and poverty. Many Abrahamic religions believe that there will be such an age; some refer to it as the consummate "kingdom of God", "paradise", … Continue reading Is the Messianic Kingdom Perfect? →

Who is the Trinity?  Good Morning Friends,  Today we sail through some scripture and thoughts regarding the trinity of God. Frequently the Spirit is called an it and not a Person of the Trinity. I like to think of the Father as God for us and Jesus as God with us and the Spirit as … Continue reading Who is the Trinity? →

What Does It Mean To Be Like Sheep, Doves, And Serpents?  Good Morning Friends,  Look Ma, no hands! It dawned on me yesterday that the one thing the three animals in today's scripture have in common is that they have no hands. What is this all about? After yesterday's devotional I was sure we are … Continue reading What Does It Mean To Be Like Sheep, Doves, And Serpents? →

What Does The Hand of God Look Like?  Good Morning Friends,  Perhaps it is as a touch of comfort for a little child... or as the holder of the universe...or as the roughhewed palm of a carpenter on a cross.  Perhaps it is the very image of the miracle that happens when we place our … Continue reading What Does The Hand of God Look Like? →

What Do We Do When Faced With Injustice?  Good Morning Friends,  In today's scripture we have the story of Naboth, Jezebel and King Ahab and a killing for a Vineyard. And then from Amos and Job we get a glimpse of two men who shared some things in common. Both were laymen. They were not … Continue reading What Do We Do When Faced With Injustice? →