Good Morning Friends,    Freedom from tyranny like miracles are important if for no other reason than they help us put in priority order, God before all other things. The miracle of creation…the miracle of God having an active hand in the nation of Israel… our own wellbeing….and of course, the resurrection, integrity and the … Continue reading Do The Crosses We Bear Reflect The Miracles Of Justice Or Of Mercy That We Seek? →

Good Morning Friends,       In some churches, the Transfiguration it is a Holy Day observed on August 6, around the time of the Feast of Booths…the Feast of Harvests. So today we explore the threads of images intricately and brilliantly woven together around this event, for they are worthy of study anytime. And we … Continue reading Are We Storing Up More Fruits Or Fears On The Cloud Of Memories? →

   Good Morning Friends,    We really need to come up with some new language to describe the world in which we live. The social justice and civil rights and human rights and political verbiage just does not seem to solicit the right internal and external responses. Someone on the alt-left and another on the … Continue reading Are We Conservative Enough And Liberal Enough In Witnessing Our Faith To Scammers? →

Good Morning Friends,  Today we are contemplating the process of sanctification inaugurated and presided over by the Holy Spirit in our lives so we might have life and have it in abundance. The problem, as least one of them, is that sometimes people storm into the events in their lives, insisting that others should live … Continue reading What Characteristics That Make God Holy Can We Emulate? →

 Good Morning Friends,    Today we explore the connection between supernatural wonders, Biblical predictions and our faith in an outcome. We look at our incurable situation as humans who doubt mystical events and then marvel at the claimed reality that God has chosen us, in love, and calls us to walk on water and to … Continue reading What Is The Relationship Between Miracles, Prophecy, Faith And Holiness? →

 Good Morning Friends,    Jesus has an amazing gift for taking the traditions of the past and extrapolating their core ideas and the memories of the good times associated with them to create something new. Hopefully we get a sense of it in today's story of the feeding of the 5000. We see in it … Continue reading When Is Greater Abundance Found In Having Less? →

 Good Morning Friends,    In our Old Testament reading today, we find the people of Judah in a bit of hot water. God had a warning for them…a warning that the Lord sincerely wanted them to hear and obey. So, the Lord instructed His Prophet, Jeremiah, to confront the people who came to worship in … Continue reading How Are You At Standing Up And Speaking As A Voice Of Wisdom And Reason? →

 Good Morning Friends,    Distinguishing the hand of God in one's life is not always easy. It is not as if we get a definitive picture of it as a child. Still perhaps we do see God as a touch of comfort for a little child… or as the holder of the universe…or as the … Continue reading Whose Hands Do We Trust To Mold Us And Is It For An Earthly Kingdom Or A Heavenly One? →

Will We Learn To Mature Through Our Experience Of Feeling Alone?  Good Morning Friends,  Today we have both Martha and Jeremiah complaining about life and then being reassured as to God's love. Their lament though highly personal is also a reflection of the community's cry that we were born both as individuals and as a … Continue reading Will We Learn To Mature Through Our Experience Of Feeling Alone? →

 Good Morning Friends,  The Lectionary providently provides for us a series of fitting readings this year, currently from the prophecy of Jeremiah that should bring us to repentance when combined with Jesus' explanation of the Parable of the Weeds. Today we pick up in chapter 14 in the book of Jeremiah with a series of … Continue reading How Can The Curse Be Lifted When We Have Yet To Fully Repent? →