The Sermon on the Mount

Aug 21, 2023

  Not long after being tempted in the wilderness, Jesus climbed up a mountainside and began to teach. I believe that this Sermon on the Mount is a great summary of Jesus’s lifelong mission to broaden our interpretation of the Ten Commandments and of all that God requires of those who repent and follow Him. […]

Our Beliefs Must Be Lived

Apr 24, 2023

4.24.23            Our Beliefs Must Be Lived   It is a wonderful thing to come to believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and in God as the Creator and Sustainer of this whole universe, but we must not stop there. Our belief is just a mere beginning to loving God, if it invites […]

John the Baptist’s Birth

Dec 12, 2022

12.12.22   Mary stayed with Elizabeth and Zechariah for three months. We can only imagine what those three months were like for her–pregnant and maybe just beginning to show. Many questions to ponder as she imagined what Jesus would be like; what her life as a mother and wife would be and many more, I […]

Hearing and Seeing

Sep 05, 2022

9.5.22              Seeing and Hearing   There is so much for us to learn as we follow Jesus into the life that God designed for each of us. There is so much for us to give up: our ego’s preoccupations, our agendas and desires, and our culture’s standards, so that, over time, we will be able […]

Reciprocity with God

Aug 15, 2022

  I’ve been reading with fascination a book called, Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer who is a botanist and a native American woman of the Potawatomi Nation. And then I came across these words which stopped me In my tracks: ”For me writing is an act of reciprocity with the world. It is what […]

True Humility

Jul 25, 2022

The greatest change in our lives as we follow Jesus is in developing true humility. As we give up the issues that consume us and the values the world insists that we live by, we find that the focus of our lives goes from total self-absorption to being God-oriented and other-oriented. As we follow what […]

To Believe in God or to Follow Him?

Jul 10, 2022

  Many Christians are content with believing in God and Jesus Christ, but they do not want to become followers of Jesus who would change their lives. They ignore Jesus’s call to follow Him (Matthew 16:24, John 12:26) and all the ways the Bible tries to engage us in living the Word. They live in […]

Giving up our own agendas in favor of God’s

Jul 04, 2022

7.4.22   Are you willing to follow Jesus and seek a deeper relationship with God? Are you willing to give up what you want for what God wants for you? Do you realize that what you want is so conditioned by the culture and the world that it has nothing to do with who you […]

Surrendering to God

Jun 27, 2022

Are you willing to follow Jesus and seek a deeper relationship with God? Are you willing to give up what you want for what God wants for you? Do you realize that what you want is so conditioned by the culture and the world that it has nothing to do with who you were created […]

Blessings and Challenges

Jun 19, 2022

It is not just through the blessings that we know God is in our lives; if that’s all we are interested in from God, then we are only interested in ourselves. Even more important than the blessings are the challenges that we experience throughout our lives and what God is trying to teach us through […]