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Our challenge is not to build God a better physical house, but to present all that we do and say as testimony to His power, love, grace, and beauty.

Picture the upper room and the somber mood of twelve friends hearing the ominous words from their Master that He will soon die and that they will soon fail Him. “Not I,” protests Peter. “You will,” declares Jesus, “But let not your heart be troubled …” And then He offers hope, that He is going…

(John 14:2)  In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. Home! Home, sweet, home! That’s where we are going. That is where we belong. Anything short of home is still part of the journey. Anything that is part…

Proverbs 23:22b – “… despise not thy mother when she is old.” Your Mother When She Is Old We need as many “old mothers” as we can get in the church and in our lives. We need to honor the older mothers among us and change our thinking about the word, “old.” For some reason,…

Sunday Worship at the Fellowship of Joy –  May 14, 2016   Stoning of Saint Stephen from Sant Joan de Boí    Invocation God of Life and Love, we join our hearts and minds to focus on You, Your praise, Your presence, and the truth that You desire to convey to our hearts. Teach us…

Love of truth precedes comprehension of truth and stirs up a desire to acquire.  It results in three levels of superiority in wisdom and one great outcome of wisdom. "Oh how I love your law!It is my meditation all the day.Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies,for it is ever with me.I have more…

  He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. -Psalm 40:2 I tread cautiously on the subject of safety, for safety is an ultimate value, not a temporal one. It is often misunderstood as the absence of…

Reorganize the seats! End this custom of parties sitting together. Mix and match. How ridiculous to institutionalize a divide like that. There are no parties in the Constitution. We should not be organizing the seats that way.

God of readiness, of constancy, and of mystery,Invade me, overthrow my stubborn reluctance and Disperse my stagnant sentries who stagger the soulAnd stalwartly resist that which you insist will set me free. Mercy and grace be Your weapons of invasion,My only defense is pretense.Lower the flag that flies over the castle of my heartDeclaring autonomy…