Trinity Sunday remembering the Great Commission Luca Rossetti da Orta, The Holy Trinity', fresco, 1738-9, St. Gaudenzio Church at Ivrea  Welcome to worship online at the Fellowship of Joy at 4141 Ministries. Scripture – Genesis 1:1-2:4a   Invocation Hymn This… Continue reading

“And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.” – Psalm 55:6 It was November 21, 1783 in Paris, France.  Physicist Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier and the… Continue reading

"Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories." ~John Wilmot Any parent, worth his or her salt, will readily admit to ignorance on any number of subjects, especially… Continue reading

  We choose how we will spend our time. It is a commodity that is not renewable, but with proper stewardship, it can be maximized. It is ironic, but true, that our decisions about expenditures of time will determine the… Continue reading

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  Grace Has Brought Me Safe Thus Far I tread cautiously on the… Continue reading

  Just showing up. Maria Shriver said this about her father Sargent Shriver, "He showed us how to show up in other people's lives." What a gift – to be able to show up in other people's lives … positively… Continue reading

This is a full day – But what day isn't?We fill it with something … usually a choice.Always a choice?Many choices?Tiny, miniscule choices … autonomic, preconditioned choices …Choices we have ceased to monitor.Pellets of purpose converging, coalescing, cascading …Becoming bigger… Continue reading

We've lived long enough to know that power can be stripped bare and become as lowly as the fleeting breath of the ordinary soul. Power, wealth, position, and prestige are rather frail. The ability to buy favor will fade. Riches… Continue reading

The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.  – Psalm 50:10 The call to worship that resounds throughout history is an evangelistic call. It is… Continue reading

"Unsearchable greatness" means that there is no laboratory big enough, or any laboratory conditions vast enough, constant enough, nor sophisticated enough to fully evaluate, calculate, nor designate the "science of God." The variable extend beyond our grasp. The constants are… Continue reading