Is Your Gardening Producing a Harvest?    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 … 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 think … Continue reading Can We Unlearn The Things That Keep Us From God’s Peace? →

 Good Morning Friends,    A hot topic in politics is the immigration of people belonging to another country. People call them foreigners or perhaps more derogatory terms…implying people not like us. And frankly sometimes they are not like us. Because of this bias/reality, and perhaps a desire to control the boundaries of an electoral constituency … Continue reading Does Your Family Feel Like Resident Aliens… Strangers Living In A Strange Land? →

 Good Morning Friends,  Stephan De Beer, is the Director for the Centre for Contextual Ministry at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. I spent three days with him and other people from around the world at Laity Lodge in Texas a decade ago. Stephan led a Bible study there about the Samaritan woman at … Continue reading What Conversations Can We Have To Lead Us To Harmony And Spiritual Growth In The Home? →

   Good Morning Friends,     If you think your past is keeping you from a future of serving God think again. 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 are available and willing to be used. … Continue reading What Does The Bible Tell Us About Encounters With God And Our Conversion To The Jesus Way? →

Do We See The Providence Of God When We Give Up Our Crutches And Follow Jesus?     Good Morning Friends,     Despite the growing economic boom, suicide rates are on the rise in Florida and as the sadist time of the year, late January, post bowl games, carries over into the winter flu season I … 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? →

Do We Have A Heart For God's Thoughts Of Justice To Be Our Own?    Good Morning Friends,     Today's lectionary selection relates to the challenge of following laws that are no longer helpful and moving the cultural needle toward healthier community. In the scripture, we see the importance of the character of David and … Continue reading Do We Have A Heart For God’s Thoughts Of Justice To Be Our Own? →

 Good Morning Friends,  Today is Martin Luther King Day. And many will be quoting from his I have a dream speech, but a couple of months before his death he also gave a sermon entitled "Unfulfilled Dreams." It is worth remembering for in some ways it is more accurate of the reality in which we … Continue reading How Are We To Balance Self Interest And Justice In An Attainable Dream? →

Will We Demo Walls Of Separation And Build Our Identity With Christ In A Living Temple?  Good Morning Friends,  Given our polarized political environment in the United States it is difficult to speak to the issues in a way that does not offend. It is a problem. So too on a more personal basis is … Continue reading Will We Demo Walls Of Separation And Build Our Identity With Christ In A Living Temple? →