Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola co-authored a great book entitled, “Jesus Manifesto”  The main theme is Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ, in our lives and in the life of the church - I would agree that is a present need.  I think we would all agree that all that is going on in our world, at the root, is spiritual warfare.  As we recognize the real battle being spiritual, we too must...

We celebrated, honored and recognized our Mother’s last week, and we are looking forward to the same for Father’s Day in just five weeks!  We must not forget Memorial Day coming up too, as we honor and remember those who have left this life.  “Life”, that is the obvious common denominator.  God is the Creator of life, and of heaven and earth.  He is also the giver of eternal life through His Son Jesus Christ.  But we have an enemy of our souls....

“Happy Mother’s Day!”    I am blessed to still have my Mother with me.  In fact, I have a “triple” blessing because my Mother knows Jesus as her Savior and Lord and she worships and serves at the church in which God has called me to pastor!    When “I call to remembrance” my childhood I have fond memories of my Mom - too many to pen in this space.   My Mom would probably say she was not perfect, but I would say she was - to me anyway.  My Mom was not always...

“Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul.  Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.” - Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The Bible exhorts us to “come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” (Hebrews 4:16)

There may be times in our life that we don’t even know how or what to pray for.  It is in those times that we ...

“Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints”- Psalm 116:15

‘Some day you will read in the papers that “…”, of “…”, is dead.  Don’t you believe a word of it!  At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now, I shall...

We’ve all heard the saying, “spring showers brings May flowers.”  I for one  am looking forward to those “May flowers!”   Spring is one of my favorite seasons - everything springs back to life!   For that life to spring back to “fruitfulness” it takes water and plenty of sun shine.  There are a lot of parallels between the natural (man and nature) and the spiritual.  Nothing...

Jesus, after His Resurrection, and before His ascension back to the Father told His disciples, “…to wait for the Promise of the Father” - the Holy Spirit.

God by His grace and mercy continues to work in us and through us by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.  As we are obedient to His Word and the Holy Spirit we...

We just celebrated Easter - the resurrection of Jesus Christ!  Next on God’s prophetic timetable is Jesus’ return!  We don’t know when, only that He is coming again, because He told us so.  But in the meantime, He gave us His great commission to go into all the world and make disciples, to be His witnesses in our sphere of influence. He gave us the mandate to influence our culture, to be His light and the salt of the world.  But before we get too far ahead of ourselves we must...

“Happy Easter!”  The word Easter is only found in scripture one time, and only in the KJV (cf. Acts 12: 4b).  In other translations you will find the word Passover (greek - pascha), meaning “to pass over, to spare.”  The word Easter (eastre) means “to shine, to dawn, to spring forth.”   We cannot have Easter without Christ crucified, they go hand-in-hand!   Jesus Christ was humanities  pascha Lamb!   John the baptist proclaimed “Behold!  The Lamb of God who take away the sin of the world!” (John 1: 29b)  Jesus made atonement for our sins on the cross (“For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.” -1 Cor.5: 7b).   But Jesus did not.......

“For I determined to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” (1 Corinthians 2: 2)   The street in Jerusalem which led to Jesus’ crucifixion was called Via Dolorosa, Latin meaning, “Way of grief,” “way of sorrow,” “way of suffering,” “painful way.”   Jesus praying in the garden of Gethsemane prayed,....