Good Morning Friends, On our Lenten journey today, I want to offer a little honesty about aging, caregiving, and the questions that arise in both. My grandchildren are in that stage where everything gets dumped out and every answer is met with a persistent “Why?” I’ve learned their question isn’t defiance—it’s an invitation to stay … Continue reading Why Lent?
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Who Is The Door Where God’s Word Meets Our Prayer?
Good Morning Friends, Our lives are full of doors—moments that shape us, memories that stay with us, and thresholds that lead us into new seasons. Some doors welcome us, others resist us, and still others protect what is sacred. How we approach these doors matters, because there are days when we cannot open them alone. … Continue reading Who Is The Door Where God’s Word Meets Our Prayer?
How Do We Get To Heaven, And What Will It Be Like?
Good Morning Friends, Today’s readings draw a line between the Law of Moses and the coming Kingdom of God. They raise a question many of us wrestle with: How do we get to heaven, and what will it be like? Scripture Passage With Brief Summary: Leviticus 19:1–2, 11–18(God calls Israel to holiness expressed through ethical living—honesty, … Continue reading How Do We Get To Heaven, And What Will It Be Like?
How Does God’s Ḥesed—His Steadfast, Covenant Love—Reshape Our Understanding of Temptation and Redemption?
Good Morning Friends, Lent invites us to remember both the joy of life with God and the honest struggle of keeping faith in a world full of suffering, questions, and temptation. It calls us to carry God’s love into the ordinary moments of life—into conversations, conflicts, disappointments, and quiet acts of kindness. At the center … Continue reading How Does God’s Ḥesed—His Steadfast, Covenant Love—Reshape Our Understanding of Temptation and Redemption?
Will We Allow God’s Love To Make Us Sacred?
Good Morning Friends, We are on a forty‑day journey of learning what it means to belong to God—to live as people joined to Him in love. If we want this season to shape us, we must enter it fully, remembering that our lives are meant to point others to the Door of the Kingdom: Jesus … Continue reading Will We Allow God’s Love To Make Us Sacred?
Do We Understand What It Takes To Be Saved From Temptation?
Good Morning Friends, Cats and dogs can teach us something about our spiritual lives. Cats act as if they’re above guilt—aloof, self‑assured, almost godlike. Dogs, by contrast, are curious, eager, and quick to repent. Both tendencies live in us: the temptation to play God like a cat, and the impulse to chase everything like a … Continue reading Do We Understand What It Takes To Be Saved From Temptation?
When Life Feels Unmanageable, How Do We Endure?
Good Morning Friends, Some of my family were cowboys out West and others were farmers in the Midwest, so when we moved to Collier County in the 1960s, visiting Immokalee didn’t feel entirely foreign to my father. But what he saw there—the human rights challenges facing migrant workers—was deeply troubling. Still it was a different time. … Continue reading When Life Feels Unmanageable, How Do We Endure?
What Do We Do When We Come Down from the Mountaintop?
Good morning, friends. Lent is not named in Scripture, but the practices of repentance, ashes, and returning to God certainly are. As Transfiguration Sunday arrives, we begin our journey toward the cross—a journey that starts on a mountaintop of glory and leads us into honest repentance. Scripture: Joshua 5:9–12; Exodus 32:15; 2 Kings 1:9; Matthew 17:1–13; … Continue reading What Do We Do When We Come Down from the Mountaintop?
What Do You Say About The Way Of Small Miracles?
Good morning, friends. As Lent approaches, I find myself reflecting on small acts of love—how they quietly shape our lives. Yet even with Lunar New Year decorations around me and the Winter Olympics on the TV, I feel a touch of melancholy following the Super Bowl. I realize the underlying cause may be something internal because my mother died on … Continue reading What Do You Say About The Way Of Small Miracles?
What Kind of Faith Truly Lasts In a World Of Competing Beliefs?
Good morning, friends. Yesterday we saw the glory of Solomon’s reign; today we see how quickly it unravels. The king who had everything becomes a wise fool when his heart drifts from God. His many wives, his divided loyalties, and even the order of his building projects—his palace before the Temple—show a life slowly sliding … Continue reading What Kind of Faith Truly Lasts In a World Of Competing Beliefs?
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