God Weaving the Threads of Our Lives into the Tapestry of His Purpose
Today we commemorate the Holy Innocents. We remember today, O God, the slaughter of the holy innocents of Bethlehem by King Herod. Receive, we pray, into the arms of your mercy all innocent victims; and by your great might frustrate the designs of evil tyrants and establish your rule of justice, love, and peace; through…
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This week , the 4th week of Advent centers on Love. God’s Love for us through the advent of Jesus Christ, Y’eshua, Isa al Masih, is the act by which our lives and this world can be transformed to something new, lovely, joyous and whole. December 7th this year, would have been my brothers’ 66th…
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There is nothing better than good news! It does not matter how it comes, snail mail, telephone, face to face, television, text or even instant messaging… we love good news. Better still, is getting good news when it’s unexpected. We love surprises even more; if it is good news, that is. Take for example, the…
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Advent 2025 Week 2 This week, week 2, of Advent we light the candle of peace. In honor of this week, God brought an early, morning visitor. While drinking coffee, and sleepily staring out our window at the misty meadow engulfed in fogginess, I noticed a dove. A dove! He sat in a nearby tree…
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Advent 2025: Week One, Day 7 We frequently pray for God’s Kingdom to come. We even say it over and over in worship. “Come Lord Jesus, Messiah, Come…” as we should. But isn’t it odd that if this is our desire, our call, our hope, why do we struggle with actually living out these words…
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Today, November 30, 2025 is the first day of Advent and we light the candle of Hope. But let me go back to a place in which I was imagining a future that was bright and good and affirming for all people. I hoped that goodness and love would lift us to a new…
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The Word Became Flesh… Before anything was, God was. God then decided to fashion companions for Himself. He didn’t want puppets or slaves, so He created His people with a free will. Free will is the power to choose whatever, whenever for good or evil. He also knew that His creation having a fallible…
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Grace will heal and restore. Grace will make us resilient. Grace is what the world needs now.
Day 7 The Last Supper – Christ discloses His earnest desire for the last hour of calm before going out into the storm of the Garden, the trials, and the cross.
Day 6: The Good of Golgotha: Living and Majestic God and Father of our Lord Christ, King of all, thank You for the goodness that You demonstrated at Golgotha.