Good Morning Friends, Our daily fears and negativity can become words that are tools of destruction in our heads, or they can be overcome in a way to build us stronger in relationship with God. Our world is filled with management techniques, but our words do not bring out our best if they are about … Continue reading Are We Paralyzed And In Fear Unmindful Of All The Small Miracles Around Us?
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Are We Climbing The Right Mountain And Are We Training Fishermen With The Right Gear?
Good Morning Friends, The letter to the Hebrews reads a lot like a sermon series. And, in chapter 12, we see a message in the Old Testament narrative where Moses came down the mountain with the Ten Commandments. The early Hebrew tribes were so frightened by the events that they asked Moses to pray that … Continue reading Are We Climbing The Right Mountain And Are We Training Fishermen With The Right Gear?
What Motivates You To Have Greater Faith?
Good Morning Friends, As usual we are taking the lectionary passages and trying to weave them together into a meaningful message. And today’s is about faith and the challenge of faith in the communities in which we live and work. For sometimes even the best leadership is ignored or worse yet feared as happened to … Continue reading What Motivates You To Have Greater Faith?
Are We Ready For An Epiphany Guiding Our Deliverance And Growth?
Good Morning Friends, Most people are in the process of putting up their Christmas tree decorations and the nativity scenes and the Advent Calendars are being packed away. We fast forward to Jesus’ baptism or to the coming of the wise men or other passages, perhaps forgetting that Jesus had to grow up like … Continue reading Are We Ready For An Epiphany Guiding Our Deliverance And Growth?
What Are We To Say About What We Believe When Jesus’ Love Heals Us Spiritually?
Good Morning Friends, Today’s devotional is about blindness and primal trust and our will to believe in the power of Jesus while at the same time, without being paranoid, realize that some people who want to play God will seize opportunities to make a trap for those that uphold hope. It is about inner blindness … Continue reading What Are We To Say About What We Believe When Jesus’ Love Heals Us Spiritually?
Is Our Soul In A Healthy Union With Others When It Comes To Ministry?
Good Morning Friends, Every generation seems to think that the end game is closer than ever. And yes, in many ways the Kingdom of God of Heaven is closer each moment and yet both judgement and grace come every day. The thought of the end times could fill people with panic attacks. But the message … Continue reading Is Our Soul In A Healthy Union With Others When It Comes To Ministry?
Will You Join Us In Having An Abundant And Healthy Spiritual Feast This Advent?
Good Morning Friends, There is a lot of talk about feeding with love this Advent and appropriately so. Today in a passage from Isaiah we see the great joy and hope of a feast without death and in the Gospel of Matthew the means of this movement of love multiplied in the grass roots to … Continue reading Will You Join Us In Having An Abundant And Healthy Spiritual Feast This Advent?
Do We Know What We Want For The Church?
Good Morning Friends, On Sunday the Reverend John Guest preached in the pulpit at Moorings Presbyterian Church. Normally sermons are around 20 minutes long. John preached for 45 minutes but it was a Kyros moment for the congregation as they listened to every word he shared as an invitation to experience Jesus. It was about how … Continue reading Do We Know What We Want For The Church?
Why Not Substitute The Transformative Truth And Love Of Christ Into Our Memories?
Good Morning Friends, On the news last night there was a story about an honor flight for retired veterans returning to Fort Myers and hundreds of people came out to give them the return home greeting that many of them did not receive when they returned home from the Vietnam War. Servicemen from the Korean … Continue reading Why Not Substitute The Transformative Truth And Love Of Christ Into Our Memories?
Are We Waiting For God To Answer Our Prayers Without Taking Any Responsibility?
Good Morning Friends, Patience is a virtue but often it is God’s patience waiting for our action of faith that is the tipping point of grace. In today’s scripture, we have a message for those who think they are living by faith but not getting the results they had hoped for. No disrespect here but, Are … Continue reading Are We Waiting For God To Answer Our Prayers Without Taking Any Responsibility?
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