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  • Seasons

    "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven." – Ecclesiastes 3:1 Our God breaths upon time and space and enters into our sphere, moving with rhythmic precision and thoughtful order, shaping events, turning tides, and weaving the seasons into a tapestry of purpose. We respond either by riding the…

  • How to Make America Great – The Test – Seeing Jesus

    Can you see him? Can you really see him? Can you see who he really is among you?Can you?He is your hope, your only hope for making America or any nation great – not just again – ever!

  • Good Christian Men, Rejoice!

    “And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.” – Matthew 2:11   The Magi seem to have come much later to Bethlehem, but…

  • Everything Is New – A Message of Reconciliation for the New Year

    In our new identity, God invites us into a partnership with the Trinity!That implies partnership with each other. We have not been drawn to faith and forgiveness to become part of an exclusive club, but to work with God in announcing God’s Kingdom, inviting all people to participate and embracing humanity in the circle of…

  • Word and Flesh

    God Spoke “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”  - John 1:1-3 God spoke. He has always spoken. There was…

  • Poor David had a bit of a blind side in his self assessment. Or did he? If God forgets my sin and separates them from me as far as the east is from the west, why should I wallow in guilt of that which is forgiven. God sees me through different eyes than I could…

  • “I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised,and I am saved from my enemies.” – Psalm 18:1

  • Kings and Priests

    God sees us as a kingdom of priests who serve and exalt Him.  That is, in reality, who we are.  All other visions of self are false and deceptive.  We are kingdom people and we are priestly people with a high calling and a sanctified standing.  It is by grace and it is complete.  God’s…

  • The Limits of Evil

    Evil will not stop itself. It perpetuates its terrors. It knows no boundaries. It will progress and regress beyond any hint of decency as it grows immune to conscience and compassion.That is the bad news. The good news is that there is, in fact a limit, but it is not pretty.

  • Away in a Manger

    There are gaps in the account. There are details we do not know. But what we need to know, we are told and among these truth is this: There was no room for Him. Humanity continues to turn a blind eye toward the presence of Jesus manifest in the least of His poor brethren. We…