When It Comes To The Things That We Let Go Of Or Hold On To ... Choose Carefully! The early part of the new year is always a time of intense implementation for me! It is the time when I…

Sustaining Strength ... A Gift From God That Makes Everything Right Sustaining Strength ... this is something that none of us can set aside. It is sustaining strength that empowers us to succeed, to stand strong in suffering and to…

Choose To Focus And Finish ... This Puts Discernment And Determination In Play! Welcome to 2020 ... and the dawning of all things new! In my case ... I will become "pension qualified" and as we all know that officially…

Rendering Ourselves Empty ... In Order To Receive His Plenty! I love transitional and threshold moments. In times of significant movement, many things will be disturbed, many things will be defined and as a result of that ...many decisions will…

Making Christmas Memories Is Great, Making Christmas Meaningful ... Even Greater! My desire is to fully redeem the season of Christmas ... so for me that means that it begins with Advent and a time of heart preparation. Then, from…

The greatest focus of Christmas is not on the gifts that we will purchase but rather on the gifts that have already been provided ... supernaturally through the coming of Christ ... into our world ... and greater still, into…

The days of Christmas are now with us! It's not the promotional sales, parades or the parties that mark the beginning of the season ... it is possibility to engage in the preparation of the Advent. Advent began last Sunday…

I love the celebration of Thanksgiving. For clarity, we know that it is a federal holiday, celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. Wikipedia reminds us that it originated as a harvest festival. Thanksgiving has been celebrated nationally on and…

Gentle reminders are a very gracious gift to us! They simply remind us of the obvious ... but the truth is, we often need that reminder. As a pastor, I often shaped my messages as "gentle reminders" because I understood…