1. You can't rest on the laurels of your first half of life.   2. You can't get discouraged by a slow start.   3. Keep playing till the end, even into overtime because: YOU ARE ALWAYS IN OVERTIME.… Continue reading

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"I believe; help my unbelief!" (See the text in Mark 9:14-29) Here is the key to the lesson Jesus is teaching His disciples when they asked why they could not help the man and his boy. After all, they believed… Continue reading

    We are thirsting for something and may not know what it is. We think we know. We think it might be a righteousness that we can produce with a little more effort. It might be a holiness that… Continue reading

  I am awake. What a delightful surprise, A twist of events that I embrace. I would say shocking, but that would mean a stopping. It is a stirring.   I greet this morning with wonder and anticipation. For those… Continue reading

Not FIENDS, now that I have your attention, but FRIENDS. The polarization of our times and positions has widened the gap between us in this country to the place where we are finding it increasingly difficult to discern the logic… Continue reading

Our community has recently engaged in 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting.  It was a wonderful time. we had 21 nightly virtual prayer meetings in a variety of churches across our city. Thousands attended and prayed across denominational, ethnic, cultural,… Continue reading

    We are demonstration laboratories for the truth that we embrace, internalize, and profess.   What we add is conviction, attitude, and action.   These gather under the broad yet specific category of faith. They, in turn, by the… Continue reading

  And then you figure out what you are thinking! I was asked a question a few years ago and  I was surprised at my answer. Someone asked if we wanted to be remembered when we were gone and I… Continue reading

Readings: Isaiah 51:17-23, Galatians 4:1-11, Mark 7:24-37, Psalm 56-58 Some days, it is enough to just post scripture and let it speak without our agenda, without our opinion, without our interpretation, and without our application. I do not know how… Continue reading