Do You Know Who This Is About?  Good Morning Friends,  My ministry…my life…my suffering has had a central theme of striving to bring dignity to nameless people lost in the statistics. These are the poor, the least, the lost, the last, the anonymous, often despised groups of people marginalized as in-significant before society but not … Continue reading Do You Know Who This Is About? →

Do You Feel God's Intercession?  Good Morning Friends,  Paul writes to the Corinthians in response to the existential loneliness, the emptiness inside that revisits them and us when we embrace a secular ecstasy that is born out of evil. At the heart of the problem is our separation from God...death. In today's devotional we begin to see … Continue reading Do You Feel God’s Intercession? →

Are You Prepared to Make a Decision to Forgive?  Good Morning Friends,  Mercy is at the heart of today's devotional. The problem presented is the challenge of how God could possible forgive us when we do not forgive others. We pray forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. But before that we have … Continue reading Are You Prepared to Make a Decision to Forgive? →

Do You Hear God's Voice Calling You To The Party?  Good Morning Friends,  In Western philosophy, traces of the idea that came to be called the tabula rasa appear as early as the writing of Aristotle. Islamic philosophers discussed it in relation to those who are isolated from society. St. Thomas Aquinas promoted the idea as part of … Continue reading Do You Hear God’s Voice Calling You To The Party? →

What Brings You Comfort?    Good Morning Friends,  Today on our journey of Lent we explore prayers that can raise the dead. We spend a little quite time in the story of a person who helped people by using the talents she had to encourage other. Today we explore how we are knit together in … Continue reading What Brings You Comfort? →

Do You Believe in the Power of Small Miracles?  Good Morning Friends,  There may have been times in your life when you felt like you needed a parting of the seas to survive. But God does not seem to work that way now. Today though, I think we need to look beyond the Cecil B. … Continue reading Do You Believe in the Power of Small Miracles? →

How is Your Heart?    Good Morning Friends,    I am in what we call "worship" just about every Sunday morning. But what I am discovering is that the place of worship and the acts and order of worship, are not as important as our response to them. The essence of worship is ultimately a … Continue reading How is Your Heart? →

Have You Ever Had To Eat Your Words?    Good Morning Friends,  This Lent it would be great if we fasted from gossip and realized that we are not only what we eat but also what we speak. This Lent, if we cannot add the habit of speaking in love in our daily walk, maybe we can offer … Continue reading Have You Ever Had To Eat Your Words? →

Are You Filled With The Holy Spirit?  Good Morning Friends,  The image of the Holy Land holds many appropriate landmarks that bring understanding to the journey of the spiritual life one can contemplate during Lent. That Jesus traverses much of it on his walk to the cross is to guide us in our journey. The … Continue reading Are You Filled With The Holy Spirit? →

 Do We Really Believe Or Are We Make Believe Christians?  Good Morning Friends,  We say the words that would suggest we believe in the fullness of life in Christ...that there is really one, holy catholic and apostolic church. That there is one God. We recite the attributes of God....the characteristics of the church in the … Continue reading Do We Really Believe Or Are We Make Believe Christians? →