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Adoration- is it part of your worship?

Devotional Discussion of the day: In a few days, the strains of familiar music will fill your ears, if it hasn’t already.  The sounds of Christmas (even though it is not advent.) But as I plan out our...

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Adore

To avoid routine in your vocal prayers try to say them with the same ardour with which a person who has just fallen in love speaks… and as if it were the last chance you had to approach Our Lord. (1)...

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I Have Decided, to Follow Jesus! (Controversy? Not so much…)

Follow Me (Photo credit: Fr. Stephen, MSC) Devotional/Discussion Thought of the Day…  14  “So fear the LORD and serve him wholeheartedly. Put away forever the idols your ancestors worshiped when they...

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The Heart of Theology & the Heart of Ministry is the Heart of Christ

IMG_6335 (Photo credit: Light from Light) Devotional/Discussion Thought of the Day: 11  Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked...

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Persecution, Martyrdom, the Love of Christ…. and a hard lesson in prayer

Crucifix (Photo credit: LeChinchi)  11  They have triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word to which they bore witness, because even in the face of death they did not cling to life....

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Faith, Hope, Love – they are verbs… not nouns

Andrei Rublev’s Trinity, representing the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in a similar manner. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Devotional/Discussion Thought of the Day…. James 2:17-18 (TEV) 17  So it is with...

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Not Separating That Which Goes Together: God & Religion, Faith & Works,...

Devotional/Discussion Thought of the Day: 17  So you see, faith by itself isn’t enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless. 18  Now someone may argue, “Some people have faith; others...

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The Key to Faith, Peace and Joy….on a Tuesday which is actually a double Monday!

Devotional Thought of the Day: 1   LORD, I have given up my pride and turned away from my arrogance. I am not concerned with great matters or with subjects too difficult for me. 2  Instead, I am...

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Seriously, Does God Take Mondays Off?

Devotional Thought of the Day: “I’ll be with you as you do this, day after day, right up to the end of the age”  Mt 28:20, MSG 341         You told me that God sometimes fills you with light for a...

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They Don’t Love Your Religion, but They Like Your Jesus? What a awesome...

Devotional Thought of the Day: 21  Then Elijah stood in front of them and said, “How much longer will you waver, hobbling between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him! But if Baal is God, then...

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When being “spiritual” or “in a relationship” isn’t enough. Our need for...

Devotional Thought of the Day: 26  Then your children will ask, ‘What does this ceremony mean?’ Exodus 12:26 (NLT) 1  As for you, my son, be strong through the grace that is ours in union with Christ...

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What Scripture Says about the Presidential Election…

Devotional Thought of the Day: 20  If we say we love God, but hate others, we are liars. For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if we do not love others, whom we have seen. 21  The command...

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Would You Give Up Your “Rights” for….

Devotional Thought fo the Day:  So turn from youthful desires and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord* with purity of heart.s 23 Avoid foolish and...

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Discipleship, Spiritual Formation and the Mark of the Beast

  TDevotional/Discussion Thought of the Week 17 so that no one could buy or sell except one who had the stamped image of the beast’s name or the number that stood for its name. 18 Wisdom is needed...

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This Church is For Misfits and Outcasts

Devotional Thought of the Day: 15 Later on Jesus was having a meal in Levi’s house. A large number of tax collectors and other outcasts were following Jesus, and many of them joined him and his...

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The Need to Seek God. Why prayer is more than tweeting Him!

Devotional Thought of the Day: 16 But he would go away to lonely places, where he prayed.  TEV  Luke 5:16 But there are other reasons why God has bestowed this external knowledge of Himself upon the...

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Great Confidence in the Message. A Sermon about the Transfiguration.

Greater Confidence in the Message 2 Peter 1:16-21 † Jesus, Son, Savior †  As Jesus love for us in revealed as He journeys toward the cross, may the grace of God our Father, and our Lord Jesus transform...

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The Great Escape That is our Faith

Devotional Thought of the Day: 13  Every test that you have experienced is the kind that normally comes to people. But God keeps his promise, and he will not allow you to be tested beyond your power to...

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The Question is Not Relationship or Religion. A Plea for Communion with Christ.

Devotional Thought of the Day 21  For God in his wisdom made it impossible for people to know him by means of their own wisdom. Instead, by means of the so-called “foolish” message we preach, God...

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Do We Have to Choose Between Dominating or Paralysis?

Devotional Thought fo the Day: 13  “Find out where he is,” the king ordered, “and I will capture him.” When he was told that Elisha was in Dothan, 14  he sent a large force there with horses and...

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