Good Morning Friends, Today is Resurrection Sunday, and many began the celebration in advance and some, though not as many as 25 years ago, will have the day off tomorrow too. It reminds me in some ways of Independence Day, but with a lot more chocolate. And as I contemplate the last week, with some degree of … Continue reading Are Doubts Getting In The Way Of Us Having Our Primary Identity In Christ?
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Are We Willing To Both Serve And Be Served For God’s Glory This Holy Week?
Good Morning Friends, I imagine that from time to time you have served a meal to the less privileged at the expense of receiving service from them. In today’s text at the Last Supper Jesus washes the feet of the disciples along this theme in the Upper Room at Passover. But this action on Jesus’ … Continue reading Are We Willing To Both Serve And Be Served For God’s Glory This Holy Week?
Are You Serving The King With A Holy Purpose Guided By God’s Plan Of Love?
Good Morning Friends, If Judas had not betrayed Jesus, would we still be Christians? If Peter had not denied Christ and later been forgiven, would we understand grace? Friends, we are in Holy Week, and it is a time when we remember both the darkest hour of history, and the time the Son of God … Continue reading Are You Serving The King With A Holy Purpose Guided By God’s Plan Of Love?
Have You Been Freed By The Truth Or Are You Deceived?
Good Morning Friends, There is a deception in this world that seems to be growing and it is a personal and collective problem not limited by political party or culture. We are plagued by fake news and the rewriting of history for profit that does not tell the full story and often promotes a very … Continue reading Have You Been Freed By The Truth Or Are You Deceived?
Do We Have The Faith To Stop Complaining, Overcome Our Instincts, And Be Healed And Saved?
Good Morning Friends, The sad storyline in Exodus and Numbers is of a group of people who made a profession of complaining for forty years. As God was delivering them and providing for them, they whined. And honestly, I might have as well if I had been bitten by a snake and attributed my situation … Continue reading Do We Have The Faith To Stop Complaining, Overcome Our Instincts, And Be Healed And Saved?
Are We All In Disciples Of The Light?
Good Morning Friends, Sorting out false prophets is not as easy as one might think for false prophets are shrewd. Some basic wisdom is available to us. It has been said that early to bed and early to rise makes a person healthy, wealthy, and wise. And perhaps that is true for one who spends … Continue reading Are We All In Disciples Of The Light?
Have You Tried To Comprehend The Transformative Power Of God Crucified On The Cross?
Good Morning Friends, Paul gives three reasons for boasting only in the cross of Jesus Christ. He claims the cross has the power to free believers from the world’s bondage. It has the power to do what the flesh cannot do. And it has the power to bring salvation from the evil of the world. … Continue reading Have You Tried To Comprehend The Transformative Power Of God Crucified On The Cross?
What Are We to Do When We Have Self-inflicted Wounds?
Good Morning Friends, WARNING! YOU MAY NOT WANT TO READ THIS. Today’s devotional reminds me of my grandfather who had a glass eye he would take out and show us as kids as he told the story of walking into a towel hanger that popped out his real one. It reminds me of my dad … Continue reading What Are We to Do When We Have Self-inflicted Wounds?
Have You Ever Lost The Presence of God?
Good Morning Friends, The Gospel reading today is about the witness of the love of God being in Jesus and his disciples and the sad reality that the religious elite would reject that love. Jesus makes the case for the work of the Holy Spirit in him and many people were surprised for they did … Continue reading Have You Ever Lost The Presence of God?
Who Is Jesus To Us Today?
Good Morning Friends, The Gospels spend a lot of time on the topic of who Jesus is and the reality that he will judge everyone. Jesus does not set out to embarrass those questioning him, but he does desire people to know the truth. Some call him the Messiah, the Son of David… Others compare … Continue reading Who Is Jesus To Us Today?
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