Good Morning Friends,     I imagine that from time to time you have served a meal to the less privileged at the expense of receiving service from them. In today's text at the Last Supper Jesus washes the feet of the disciples along this theme in the Upper Room at Passover. But this action … Continue reading Are We Willing To Both Serve And Be Served For God’s Glory This Holy Week? →

    Good Morning Friends,  One of the saddest characters in the Bible is Judas Iscariot. He had such promise. His name's sake, Judas Maccabaeus is in the history books as the brilliant military strategist who led an uprising for Jewish independence in 164 B.C. In fact, many of the disciples had the name of Judas. … Continue reading Why Did Jesus Choose Judas? →

 Good Morning Friends,     If Judas had not betrayed Jesus, would we still be Christians? If Peter had not denied Christ and later been forgiven, would we understand grace? Friends, we are in Holy Week, and it is a time when we remember both the darkest hour of history, and the time the Son of … Continue reading Are You Serving The King With A Holy Purpose Guided By God’s Plan Of Love? →

 Good Morning Friends,    Blink your eyes and in one-week Easter will have come and gone. As for church staff they will be rejoicing in the offer of Jesus. "Come to me all you who are weary and heavy burdened, and I will give you rest." And for the lot of Florida laity, we too … Continue reading How Can We Be All In, Glorifying The Suffering Servant This Passover? →

   Good Morning Friends,    Everything is connected but some things have been connected in scripture in a way to help us to remember the events and themes. As we continue our Lenten journey moving ever on this Palm Sunday we begin Holy Week, it is good to review the lessons from the palm tree … Continue reading Why Do Passion, Colts, Tears and Palms Go Together? →

   Good Morning Friends,      Today we look at scripture that shows us the willful blindness of unbelievers. It is an example of how the Old Testament points to Christ and, points to a time when Christ will rule the nations in justice. The setting for the Old Testament scripture is that Jeremiah had been … Continue reading How Would We Have Held Up The Seven Days Before Jesus’ Death? →

    Good Morning Friends,      A friend of mine pointed out to me that a lot of terms we use as scriptural do not appear in the Bible. For example, no where will you see the word Easter in scripture. There has been a cultural subversion of the Biblical faith and it is now so … Continue reading Do You Believe Jesus Is The Covenant Of Love He Claimed to Be? →

   Good Morning Friends,    There is a deception in this world that seems to be growing and it is a personal and collective problem not limited by political party or culture. We are plagued by fake news and the rewriting of history for profit that does not tell the full story and often promotes … Continue reading Have You Been Freed By The Truth Or Are You Deceived By A Lie? →

   Good Morning Friends,     Today we look at the prescribed method whereby we must be saved. We look for a supernatural more than a medical healing, which is much like the stories I hear of Third World Christianity. And somehow these stories of Messianic Jews and Evangelical Christians for Jesus today I think are … Continue reading Do You Have The Faith To Accept Jesus’ Offer of Healing And Salvation? →

   Good Morning Friends,    Sorting out false prophets is not as easy as one might think for false prophets are shrewd. Some basic wisdom is available to us. It has been said that early to bed and early to rise makes a person healthy, wealthy, and wise. And perhaps that is true for one … Continue reading Are We All In Disciples Of The Light? →