Good Morning Friends,    Trying to read into the unknown future of what we call the "afterlife" is a bit naïve and can be even disastrous. Every 30 years or so a couple of billion people face death and when you consider all the people who have died since the beginning of time, the … Continue reading Do We Consider Ourselves Children Of The Resurrection And Seeds Of The Kingdom To Come? →

Good Morning Friends,  Yesterday we asked a question about accountability and now today we ask about investing our time and talent and treasure shrewdly. Today we look at the story of the unjust steward which is often called the story of the shrewd steward. The scripture compares the children of light and the children of … Continue reading Do You Understand The Proper Use Of Wealth? →

Good Morning Friends,      Do you know how hard it is to go to through life without holding a grudge of some kind? My guess is, that even for the most kindhearted of us, down deep in the recesses of our souls – maybe even in a subconscious way – there is a grievance somewhere, … Continue reading Do You Act As If You Are Accountable To God When Sharing The Gospel To The Lost? →

    Good Morning Friends,     The custom of remembering the faithful departed goes back to the early days of the church when their names were posted so they could be remembered. On the Communion Table in many Sanctuaries are the words, In Remembrance Of Me, in reference to Jesus and by connection the Jesus Spirit in believers … Continue reading How Do You Profess Being A Christian On All Souls Day? →

 Good Morning Friends,     Forrest Gump said that life was like a box of chocolates… you never know what you are going to get. And so too life is like a baseball game, a world series game. Like one we thought was going to be played between the Astros and the Phillies. But the game … Continue reading Are We Looking Beyond The World Series And Halloween To Something More Important? →

   Good Morning Friends,    Yesterday's lectionary was on love and the sermon and songs we sang in church as well. And today's scripture is about love too, including table etiquette in the Kingdom and conforming to the unity of God in community…something during election time that seems very far removed from the norm. These … Continue reading Won’t You Be My Good Neighbor? →

Good Morning Friends,     Most of the early churches just did not make it. Their congregants were not all in. The letters and the book of Revelation explain some of the problems of wealth in their collapse. Today we explore the problem of being spoiled by having inherited too much money and the problem of … Continue reading Will Salvation Come To Our Inherited House Of Worship If We All Began Tithing? →

    Good Morning Friends,     Over the course of the trauma and tensions of the last couple of years people have been evaluating the strength of their organizational structures to deal with life. And by this, I mean the physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, and relational ability of them to withstand stress. Think about bridges and … Continue reading What Is The Connection Between Our Relationship With Christ And The Strength Of Our Resilience? →

   Good Morning Friends,    One of the songs we have stopped singing in Church is Onward Christian Soldier. It is no longer politically correct. And yet today as we look at two related images of how Christians are to behave both on and off the battlefield against sin, it seems rather appropriate. For here … Continue reading Is Your Language And Behavior Outfitted For Success In The Spirit Of Christ When You Pray? →

   Good Morning Friends,    I guess I would really like my enemies to have a good life and even make it into heaven for then they would no longer be enemies and even though I might never like them perhaps I could love them. The thing is that each of us will die someday, … Continue reading Lord, Will Only A Few Be Saved? →