Spiritual Beings Having a Human Experience

That title is the beginning of leaving the old life and breaking the champagne bottle on the bow of the new. It’s an inner realization you are launching into something bigger than yourself. Spiritual reality is God’s reality and He has invited us…

Focus on Looking Forward 2

“The question of course is what happens after we open the Door. Once you are in, what happens next? What is the new life all about?” Those are the questions left from the last entry. That’s where we presented the ‘Looking Forward’ theme. After you enter the Door…

Focus on Looking Forward

“This is what the Lord says---He who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, ‘Forget, the former things, do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up: do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland…

Invisibility

“In Him was life and that life was the light of men (Jn.1:4).”

What kind of life light was that? The main idea is that the life Jesus lived was something new, a light that was seen in a different way.…

Christmas

When the Future is What Makes the Present

While we have been concentrating on the Second Coming during Advent it is time we look at what it will produce in the present. It is why we continue to celebrate Christmas year after year. Because we are looking forward to Jesus returning it is…

Invisibility

“In Him was life and that life was the light of men (Jn.1:4).”

What kind of life light was that? The main idea is that the life Jesus lived was something new, a light that was seen in a different way.…

Is It Any Wonder Why We’re Media Exhausted?

Having finished a front-page Associated Press article in the local paper headlined “Trump lags predecessors on diversity” subtitled “Cabinet picks mostly wealthy, white, male, business-minded,” my initial response was ‘Here we go again.  Give me a break.’  It was written by two reporters, Lisa Lerer and Julie Pace.  My personal objection is based on the article’s superficiality revealing the bias and bigotry of the writers; categorizing…

The Image of God: Mind, Heart, Spirit

In my trips to get new glasses the same procedure greets me. I'm put through a series of tests where the eye examiner probes with light techniques to determine the health of my eyes. Then a focus test is given to measure the strength of vision and a prescription is arrived at to make glasses that adjust sight to a relative 20/20…

Why Jesus? Who Are We, Anyway?

One thing we can say about living in this world is that we have become attached to our body.

Lots has been written about it.. The whole realm of…

The Great Return

The most important thing about preparation is what you are preparing for. Advent is a period of preparation for...? That's right, Jesus' return. Of course we are all getting ourselves ready for Christmas celebration at worship, family get-togethers, memories, the fireplace, the tree, carols and all the festivities that surround the expectation of the Savior's…

A String and a Coin

Recently I was walking across the parking lot of a Home Depot and spotted a quarter on the pavement. I stooped over to pick it up and couldn’t. Someone had glued it there. I wondered, were they watching or did they do it for an ongoing joke? I laughed at myself at having…

This is My World

On one news channel there’s a program called Watter’s World. Jesse Watters is a kind of ‘tongue-in-cheek’ interviewer who stops people on the street and gives them simple questions to…

The Image of God: Mind, Heart, Spirit

In my trips to get new glasses the same procedure greets me. I'm put through a series of tests where the eye examiner probes with light techniques to determine the health of my eyes. Then a focus test is given to measure the strength of vision and a prescription is arrived at to make glasses that adjust sight to a relative 20/20…

Advent and the Foretastes!

On weekends when you go to a few of the big discount stores like Costco or BJ's there are people dressed as cooks at the end of some of the aisles preparing bits and pieces of different kinds of foods for you to taste. Their intention is to get you to buy a box or more of their product. If you like the flavor of the foretaste you'll…

God Came Through a Different Door

“This will be a sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths lying in a manger…

Faith, the Whole Faith and Nothing But the Faith

If you want a clear picture of what true, complete and ultimate faith looks like, think Jesus. Everyday of His life, His mind, His heart and Spirit was living for His Father. His heart, mind and Spirit were in His Father. He was the temple of faith for His Father. His…

Advent, The Trail Between Hearts

We are beginning a season known as Advent. It's a spiritual 'looking forward' season. Three images help us to understand the meaning of Advent: cross country skiing, the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Panama Canal.

In cross country skiing, when you are in a group moving through the woods, you…

Election Leftovers, A Continuing Look

We are experiencing a huge spiritual conflict taking place across the country. There is no question that it is being fueled by backroom dissidents whose only goal is to finance, and keep the country in, conflict and chaos. It's too well organized to escape notice. There are professional sign makers at work having been paid by hidden sources…

Election Leftovers Follow-Up, Bad News and Good News

Actually it's all about attitude. Attitude is the heart in action. Attitude shapes the world. Attitude is invisible. Attitude is the conclusion the mind makes about what the heart experiences. Attitude motivates action. Attitude is the drawn arrow of emotional reaction. Attitude is the unstable…

Now is the Hour

When a 700 year old prophecy is fulfilled, you've got to look at it, consider what it means and personally deal with it. That's exactly what the call is when we come to Isaiah 11:1-5. We cannot escape what the real focus is in this passage from the prophet that predicts the coming of Jesus. It has everything to do with how the Father restores and defines our…