Good Morning Friends, I do not know about you but since the first of the year I have been receiving mail and emails and online ads prompting me to join a gym and try out new exercise strategies to strengthen my health and flexibility. The internet apparently has a bias on what is best for … Continue reading How Do We Build The Body Powered By Christ Like Humility?
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What Do Mountains In The Bible Symbolize For Our Work Today?
Good Morning Friends, There is something mysterious about the mountains of the world and those referenced in the Bible for these places were also often pagan worship sites as well as where God was revealed. You see from the Biblical experience on the mountains of Ararat, Sinai, to Horeb, Hermon and Calvary the message is the same. … Continue reading What Do Mountains In The Bible Symbolize For Our Work Today?
Do We See The Providence Of God When We Give Up Our Crutches And Follow Jesus?
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 Covid season, … Continue reading Do We See The Providence Of God When We Give Up Our Crutches And Follow Jesus?
If Jesus Is Your Prophet, Priest and King, Is He Also Your Sabbath Rest?
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 Hebrew … Continue reading If Jesus Is Your Prophet, Priest and King, Is He Also Your Sabbath Rest?
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 communities. In the scripture, we see the importance of the character of David and why God chose him to be King. We see a new way being formed, and it … Continue reading Do We Have A Heart For God’s Thoughts Of Justice To Be Our Own?
Do We Have A Peaceful Heart For God’s Dreams Of Justice To Be Our Own?
Good Morning Friends, Today is Martin Luther King Day and we celebrate his birth, not his death back in April of 1968. And even though it took twenty years after Reverend King’s death for him to be recognized in this way, and the reality that much of what he had hoped for has not fully … Continue reading Do We Have A Peaceful Heart For God’s Dreams Of Justice To Be Our Own?
Is The Paraclete Prodding You Through Scripture To Practice A Practical Lifestyle Supporting The Cause Of The King?
Good Morning Friends, Acts of faith are often viewed as being less rational and sound than cold analytical actions. But there is a place for both. Even our language and the changing meaning of words tends to diminish or even denigrate actions taken born out of our religious heritage. Interacting respectfully with those of different … Continue reading Is The Paraclete Prodding You Through Scripture To Practice A Practical Lifestyle Supporting The Cause Of The King?
What Matters Most About Getting To Heaven?
Good Morning Friends, In a society that continues to overvalue progress and personal achievement, even our spiritual lives could become performance oriented. We think about levels and phases and stages, but in the life of the Spirit these measurements are not as important as the process in our goal of heaven for ourselves and those … Continue reading What Matters Most About Getting To Heaven?
How Will We Respond To God’s Guidance Motivating Us To Be Obedient To The Spirit Of Love?
Good Morning Friends, In the past we have contemplated what it was like to hear from God and today we further explore the problems we have when we do not hear from God as set forth in the book of Samuel. Then we explore the problems of not feeling in the life of a leper … Continue reading How Will We Respond To God’s Guidance Motivating Us To Be Obedient To The Spirit Of Love?
Do We Believe That God Is Speaking Through Us When We Share The Gospel?
Good Morning Friends, The combined mystery of Jesus being fully God and fully Man is perhaps the greatest mystery in the Bible. Conveying to others the ability of Christ to help us, to run to our cries for help, when we and others are in distress is the task of every Christian. And whether the … Continue reading Do We Believe That God Is Speaking Through Us When We Share The Gospel?
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