Good Morning Friends,    A lot has happened during Holy Week in our storyline and a lot more is getting ready to happen. We have read about Palm and Passion, Death and Resurrection, Betrayal and Denials, and now the gift of the Holy Spirit as we continue the journey to Pentecost and continue to unpack … Continue reading Has Your Experience Of Holy Week Prepared You For A Joyous Relationship With Jesus? →

Good Morning Friends,      If we are conducting ourselves as citizens of God's Kingdom…. if we are seeking the evidence of the presence of God in our lives, we will hopefully be striving together for something more tangible than the stones that make up the places in which we worship. Hopefully, we will be striving and … Continue reading Do You Have A Personal Story Of Resurrection Related To Your Own Salvation This Eastertide? →

   Good Morning Friends,    Yesterday was the last day of Lent, a day Jesus rested in the tomb and it was a good day to reflect on the light and darkness of life. And since everyone dies, it was also a good day to think about what happens in the process of our death…through … Continue reading Are We Trusting The Love Of Jesus To Roll The Tomb Stone Away From Our Eyes? →

 Good Morning Friends,  Last night my wife and I attended a Maundy Thursday service at church. Last year we participated online and shared a meal with desert serving as the communion elements. But this year in a designed worship space as we listened to music and scripture readings designed to open our hearts to a … Continue reading Will We Embrace Christ’s Cross…As Our Cross? →

   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 … Continue reading Are You Serving The King With A Holy Purpose Guided By God’s Plan Of Love? →

   Good Morning Friends,    To the Western way of thinking the whole is simply the sum total of its parts. This point of view works fairly well until we come to people and their senses and their spirit. Plain and simple, a human body is not merely the sum total of its parts and … Continue reading How Can We Be All In, Glorifying The Suffering Servant This Passover? →

   Good Morning Friends,    Jesus entered Jerusalem at a time the Jews were preparing to celebrate their deliverance from slavery in Egypt. Their deliverance was not without a battle. Ten terrible plagues fell on Egypt before they could leave. The last of the ten plagues was the death of all the firstborn of animals … Continue reading Are We Ready For Our Deliverance? →

   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? →