New Year's greetings all! Happy New Year! Thank you for reading. I wish you each a blessed and safe New Year's celebration. This is an interesting point in time for us. On this very day, we bring to a close the tumultuous year of 2023, with many of us breathing a sigh of relief. Yet, at this same moment, we look forward to the new year of 2024, with hope for a year of miracles, new challenges, and revival for us, as individuals, and for our communities. What defines our vi

Merry Christmas. Thank you for reading. I pray you are enjoying this Christmas season. As we have so far this Christmas, I ask that as you scroll the readings today, please pay attention to the miracles. Not just in number, for there are many, not just in the common Christmas scriptures, for these are familiar and easily taken for granted. But please pay attention to the miracles that happen from above, across thousands of years, involving God’s relationship to mankind. For

Merry Christmas everyone. We will look today at Matthew’s version of the Christmas story. I want to say something before we begin. This year has been a different year. The weird economy, the obvious decline of our culture and society. The breakdown of many of our country’s institutions and bureaucracies. War in Ukraine, and then there is the recent terrorist attack in Israel, and now the war in Gaza. We live in a serious time in history, and platitudes to just not worry, b

Merry Christmas! I pray that you and yours are preparing for a wonderful Christmas. We began last week referencing all the miracles that have occurred, are occurring, and will occur because of Jesus. The portion of miracles that we looked at last week fall under an aka, also known as, Emmanuel, meaning God with us. Today, we will look to Jesus as the King of the Jews. Jesus is referred to as the King of the Jews two times in scripture. One at the time of his birth as the Ma

Merry Christmas everyone. Thank you for reading. I pray all is well. Today, as we begin our look at Jesus and his first advent, I want us to continue to look through the prism of miracles. We have spoken a great deal about miracles over the last couple of months, and I would like for each of us to become comfortable with this idea: Miracles are a regular part of the believer’s life. Miracles are not rare, as many of us would tend to believe. Miracles are throughout the Bible

Greetings to you all. Today we are going to continue our look at false teachers in the world. False teachers are all around us. They are on TV, they sell books, and they are on YouTube, and FaceBook, in fact, the false teachers are even in our churches. Words that you hear preached today are not words that are even in the Bible. Words that you used to hear in church, you no longer hear because the false prophets won’t mention the blood of Christ. You will not hear the word sa

Happy Fourth of July to all of you. Today we are beginning a short book in the Bible 2 Peter. Short though it is, it is important, because of Peter’s exhortations against the false teachings of the day that were coming from the Gnostics. Gnosticism has always been a mash-up of different beliefs, mainly focused on these main tenets: Matter is evil and spirit is good Salvation is attained through gaining knowledge, a secret knowledge Jesus was a messenger from heaven, not reall

Greetings all, I pray that your summer is off to a great start. It was good to get away on vacation. But it is also good to be back home. Because a shepherd is always concerned about his flock. A good shepherd is always concerned about his flock. Today we are going to stay in 1 Peter, finishing this book up. We are going to look at the Chief Shepherd. I have always viewed my ministry as one of being a shepherd. Early on in ministry, I learned to be content in just caring for

Good morning everyone. I pray that this missive finds you well and blessed. Today I am going to stray from 1 Peter, we’ll return to Peter next week. Pastor Hood parched on Jesus’ desert experience on Maundy Thursday at 2Gather2Gether. His sermon got me thinking about what I had always thought was my desert experience. The Holy Spirit revealed to me I was wrong. Please allow me to explain. Many of us have been in this desert experience that our Lord Jesus went through. I am g

Greetings and love to you all. We spoke last week about doing the word. How our faith is at its best when we put it into action. Today we’ll continue along this same line of thought, looking at our faith with deeds. Not our faith and deeds. But, our faith with deeds. The deeds we perform or do not perform should be a clue to the strength of our faith. We’ll stay in the book of James, James 2:12-13, “Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freed

Greetings everyone, I pray that each one of you is doing well. If not, I encourage you to let me know. I’ll add you to our prayer list, or, if you’d prefer, my personal prayer list. I don’t get to see some of you anymore. Covid messed us all up, in many ways. If it's been a while, drop me an email and give me an update. I’d love to hear from you. I miss you. This being said, today I would like for us to continue in the first chapter of the book of James. Our focus is to remin

Greetings all, I pray that you and your families are well. Today I have been led to encourage our contemplation of and attitudinal development regarding our service to God. We are God’s servants. We were created to please God. What we think, what we do, and what we say should be pleasing to God. Have you ever thought of it this way? Every thought that we think should bring glory to God. Every word we speak should bring glory to God. Everything we do should bring glory to God.

Greetings all, I pray that all is well with you and yours. I have been led to the books of 1 and 2 Peter. So, over the next few weeks, we will delve into Peter’s teachings, and while I pray that you enjoy hearing Peter’s words, even more, I pray that you will learn something from him. Peter is The Rock. Do you think about your salvation? It cost you nothing. Its price was paid for us by Jesus Christ. It cost him dearly. Jesus gives it freely to all who by faith, believe in hi

Happy Easter to you all. I pray you all are well. My goal as a preacher, in the pulpit, has always been to preach Wesleyan grace theology and Christ crucified. There are many positive results from this, but a couple of primary results are these: Understanding John Wesley’s grace theology and Christ crucified enables people to realize just how much God loves them. So, my goal has always been, and will always be, to preach the love of God through grace and the cross. This Easte

What is faith? Why is it important? How do we get away from the negative thoughts in our heads? Well, the answer is easy.

Greetings everyone, I pray you are all doing well. This week I want to keep talking about Jesus. Specifically, about Jesus’ sacrifice for us, and how this sacrifice is different from the annual and ritual animal sacrifices of the Israelites. What is it that makes Christ’s sacrifice so different? We will be staying in the book of Hebrews. Beginning with Hebrews 10:1-2, “The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming–not the realities themselves. For this reason i

Greetings all, I pray today’s message finds you well. Today we will continue to talk about Jesus. We will be discussing the need for blood. Today, the need for blood is paramount in medical circles. Blood drives are constantly scheduled all around us throughout the calendar year. The need for blood for surgeries and transfusions is never-ending. In fact, currently, there is a shortage of blood. One of my church member’s relative’s doctors could not give her the blood she need

Greetings in Jesus’ name. I pray that your new year is off to a great start. We will continue talking about Jesus today, again from the...

Greetings all, I apologize for this being late. We were slammed today at OH. Worst of all, for the rest of the staff, our internet was...

Greetings everyone, I pray that your new year has gotten off to a good start. As we begin 2023, I have been led to delve into the books...