December 18, 2020 Church Family:  In the Christmas story we are continuously reminded that God has sent us a Savior.  This is the celebration of every Christmas and every day.  A Savior has come to save us and redeem us!  What a great and glorious gift.  The gift that keeps on giving for eternity.  Listen to those in the Christmas story praising God for a Savior who brings salvation:Mary’s song of...  Read More

December 15, 2020 Hello Church Family:  I want to share with you how GCT has been changing during COVID so that you can minister to our body most effectively.  You are the body of Christ and we have been given a tremendous opportunity for ministry!1) If you look at the families that made up GCT on March 1, 2020, when COVID lockdowns started, we still have 27% of church members that remain quaranti...  Read More

December 11, 2020 Church Family:  Jesus!  The Lamb standing as though it had been slain (Rev. 5), is worthy to open the scroll of the promises, purposes, and plans of God because He is God.  He has ransomed people from every tribe, language, people and nation.  He has made us, followers of the Lamb, a kingdom of priests to our God and we shall reign with Him in His kingdom!  That is the good news ...  Read More

December 4, 2020 Church Family:  People conquering people, war, famine, and death.  Do these four veins of tribulation create with your heart a festive merry Christmas?  These four veins of tribulation have been present in every generation and at every Christmas.  These four common ways of tribulation have been ravaging the earth since Cain and Abel in Genesis 4.  But, in Revelation 6, at the othe...  Read More

November 27, 2020 Happy Thanksgiving Church Family:  Do you worship Jesus as the Lion?  Or do you worship Jesus as the Lamb?  Or do you worship Jesus as the Lion and the Lamb? If you are worshipping Jesus as only the Lamb or only the Lion you are worshipping only half the God that Jesus is intended to be to you.  Don’t miss out on Jesus’ Lion excellencies or His Lamb excellencies.  If we enjoy onl...  Read More

November 20, 2020 Church Family: Are you struggling today?  Does life seem futile?  Is all your hope gone?  Does it seem like that the enemies of God are winning in your family in your work in your country?  Ok, stop, wait!  Jesus desires us to look at things from His perspective by asking, “What is going on in heaven today, right now?"  As we wake up and live and struggle and do life and persever...  Read More

November 13, 2020 Hey there Church family:  Have you ever thought about your actions being so spiritually nasty that they make Jesus want to vomit them out of HIs mouth?  The lukewarm church in Laodicea had that effect upon Jesus.  They were complacent, self-satisfied, self-reliant, self-promoting in their pride so that they produced works that made Jesus want to vomit them out of his mouth like a...  Read More

November 6, 2020 Hello Church Family: You know, despite our American culture that says, “bigger is better,” Jesus loves the “mini-church”!  The Church in Philadelphia was one of “little power” (Revelation 3:8) because of the great persecution, slander, hatred, animosity and the prideful posturing of the secular culture and the religious culture within their community.  They were “little in power” ...  Read More

October 30, 2020 Hello Church Family:  One important lesson in church life is the understanding that what we might say is God-honoring liveliness in a church or in our own lives, God may see as empty, hallow, and leading to the spiritual death of the church and us.  And yes, these kinds of thoughts keep me up at night.  Just because one may see a church with thousands of people, millions of dollar...  Read More

October 23, 2020 Hello Church Family:  This week we walk with the church of Thyatira in Revelation 2, being reminded that Jesus had a big problem with this local church.  I am sure that you are with me when I say, "I do not want Jesus to have a problem with GCT!”  So, what was their problem?  Tolerance.  Now, you may be thinking what is the big deal with being tolerant?  Yes, some specific toleran...  Read More

October 16, 2020 Hello Church Family:  This week in Revelation 2:12-17, we learn how to bring a war upon our church from Jesus Christ.  I know that all of us together will say, we never want to be at war with Jesus, ever, especially in His own church.  What was the Pergamum church doing to be threatened by Jesus Christ with such violent words?  The Pergamum church had become very tolerant to false...  Read More

October 9, 2020 Good Morning Church Family:  Being a Christian in many places in our world has been proven to shorten lives.  Are we heading in that direction in America?  The church in Smyrna of Revelation 2, was suffering and their lives were shortened because they were faithful followers of Christ.  They were enduring great tribulation, slander, persecution, put in jail and even executed for th...  Read More

October 2, 2020 Hello Church Family:  Let’s start this week with a true or false question.  True or False:  The world is hostile to Christians, their beliefs, their morals, their ethical standards and their worldview?  What do you think?  Hopefully, you answered this question with a resounding, YES!  The Church in Ephesus in the first century was undergoing the same type of persecution but with gr...  Read More

September 25, 2020 Hey Church Family:  How do you see Jesus?  How do you understand, realize Jesus?  Have you let the secular world, or even elements of the “Christian world”, with some of its books, songs and teachings create a make-believe picture of Jesus in your heart and mind that does not exist?  Have you slowly tamed the Jesus of the Bible to look nothing like He really is?  Have you made H...  Read More

September 18, 2020 Hello Church Family: If you were to write a letter to encourage a struggling people what would you write?  If the people were being persecuted, their families were run from their homes, and some were even martyred for standing firm in their faith.  How would you encourage them?  This is why Jesus gave us His revelation.  He desires us to remain steadfast, to persevere, filled wi...  Read More

September 11, 2020 Hey Church Family:  We will be stopping, for several months, our Sunday morning study of Luke to receive some timely encouragement from the book of Revelation.  Revelation is a book of apocalyptic prophecy.  What does that mean?  It simply means that you have to read it differently than other genres that make up the other Bible books.  The ancient meaning of the Greek word for “...  Read More

August 30, 2020 Hello Church Family:  What makes Jesus perturbed?  Angry?  Upset?  What do you think?  This week in Luke 11, we get to see Jesus being angry and not sinning.  What is making Jesus angry?  He really does not like works-righteousness!  He never hesitated to offend religious people who thought of themselves as self-righteous on account of their own petty works.  Jesus always took the ...  Read More

August 21, 2020 Hello Church Family:  Have you ever found yourself seeking for a sign from God so that you can determine if He really is real?  Do you ask God, show me a sign that Jesus really is Your Son?  God, give me a sign that Jesus really is the sacrifice for my sins and the power of eternal life?  God, how can I be guaranteed peace with You?  God, can I really be assured of salvation becaus...  Read More

August 14, 2020 Hello Church:  Do you struggle with a bad habit that does not please the Lord and impacts your life and relationships?  Have you ever been dominated by an active, habitual, life-dominating sin?  Do you want to escape these habits and sins?  Our culture provides and encourages many opportunities for us to engage in to escape the pain and destruction of those habits.  There are suppo...  Read More

July 31, 2020 Hey Church Family:  If you stopped eating food today do you know how long you would live before dying of starvation?  We usually get a reminder every 3-4 hours that our bodies cannot survive very long without food.  Usually our bodies can only live 30-40 days without consuming food.  Our physical bodies must have physical sustenance to survive.  What about spiritual starvation?  Have...  Read More

July 24, 2020 Hello Church Family: Have you ever asked God for things that you have never received?  Are you mad that you have never received what you have asked of Him?  Have you ever said, “I asked God for this or that and I did not get it so I stopped asking.” Jesus wants us to clearly understand from Luke 11, that to pray the way our Heavenly Father wants us to pray is to pray with shameless p...  Read More

July 17, 2020 “Contingency plan," government and businesses all seem to have one today.  A contingency plan is a plan devised during times of crisis and are often developed to explore and prepare for any event that, though unlikely, would have catastrophic consequences.  I believe that as followers of Christ we are called to have a contingency plan against temptation and evil.  Submitting to tempt...  Read More

July 10, 2020 Hey Church Family:  Do you struggle with sin?  As believers we will continue to struggle with sin until the day we leave this earth which means that we are people who live in the need of forgiveness every moment of every day.  We cannot go one day without needing God to forgive us and at the same time us needing to forgive someone or seeking to ask for forgiveness from those whom we ...  Read More

July 3, 2020 Father, please give us this day our daily bread.  Church family, this is such a simple prayer that we can speak quickly throughout the day without stopping and realizing that we are absolutely totally dependent upon God’s provision for everything in our lives.  And you know, we love some food, specific foods.  So much so, our American food culture has made us really picky.  Did you kn...  Read More