Good Morning Friends,      I do not know if you have ever gone camping, I imagine that a lot of millennials, Gen X and Z have not. But the rule in building a campfire is to leave a space for the fire to breathe. Starting a fire from scratch without a match is a … Continue reading Are You Fanning The Flame Of The Right Passions? →

   Good Morning Friends,  If you think your past is keeping you from a future of serving God, think again. The past may be preparing it for you. Just look at the life of Paul, also known as Saul. If you are saved. If you are fully surrendered. If you are all in. If you … Continue reading What Does The Bible Tell Us About How We Might Experience Conversion And Why So Many Try To Avoid It? →

   Good Morning Friends,    Today we look at the personal teaching of Jesus concerning the growing of the body of believers and the growing of ourselves spiritually and mentally. There are some similarities in the challenge of helping people to grow. Now some think this should come from a pulpit and others by encounters … Continue reading Is Your Gardening Producing A Harvest? →

    Good Morning Friends,      Today's reading suggests to us that, before Christ, the laws required the regular sacrificing of animals to atone for our sins. It all seems rather foreign to us today and frankly how this was practiced 2000 years ago I doubt was pleasing to God even way back then. And I … Continue reading Can We Unlearn The Things That Keep Us From God’s Peace In The Mind Of Christ? →

   Good Morning Friends,    You would think we would know the difference between good and bad and generally I think this is true but then on occasion we are fooled into thinking one is the other. Such trickery has always been at the center of the Devil's strategy. Even having the law falls short. … Continue reading Do You Feel Like You Are A Stranger Living In A Strange Land? →

        Good Morning Friends,      My wife tells me that science has now discovered that we forget things when we walk through a doorway. I cannot explain it, but I believe she is right. Maybe that is a good reason to put up mezuzahs at the door of one's home. Related to this on … Continue reading Are Your Doors Open And Waiting To Catch The Spirit Of A Relationship? →

   Good Morning Friends,     The Bible has honest examples about human behavior outside the run of the mill. One King eats grass. People hear animals talk. David challenges a giant in one passage and drools in another. And Saul kills himself which is crazy. One guy even jumps into a pit on a cold … Continue reading Are We Out Of Our Minds? →

    Good Morning Friends,        Despite all the blessing we experience in the United States, suicide rates and emotional pain seems to be on the rise especially among youth and as the sadist time of the year, late January, post bowl games, carries over into the playoffs in professional football and the winter Flu and … Continue reading Do We See The Providence Of God When We Give Up Our Crutches And Follow Jesus? →

   Good Morning Friends,     That we all have the rhythms of a seven-day week is truly amazing for it is not something that is justified by the moon or the sun precisely although the four phases of the moon roughly correspond to seven days. For the believer, we need to consider the Sabbath, and … Continue reading Are You Living Your Life In The Rhythms Of God? →

   Good Morning Friends,       In the past I have mentioned that the parables of the patched cloth and the wineskins were sandwiched in between two similar confrontations between Jesus and the Pharisees. Today's lectionary selection has the other side of the sandwich and indeed, no joking it is related to bread…Holy Bread. The passage … Continue reading Do We Understand The Purpose Of The Law Of Love? →