June 21, 2019 Happy Friday GCT:  Throughout Scripture you can trace basically everywhere that our loving heavenly Father wants us to be blessed.  The words for “blessed" in the Hebrew and Greek are so much greater than what our one syllable word really communicates.  God is wanting us to take hold of the eternal truth that He wants us to be completely satisfied in Him knowing that He has promised ...  Read More

June 14, 2019 Hey GCT:  Sometimes you really cannot believe what God has done in the history of redemption until you read it from Scripture over and over again.  Then while reading the Holy Spirit reveals truth.  Many times when that happens we have to deprogram our traditional thinking of what we think about God or how we think He is working and submit to the truth of Scripture.  So often we make...  Read More

June 7, 2019 Hey Church!  Let’s continue to apply Luke 5-6 to our lives so that we can recognize when our inner Pharisee is raising its legalistic head. A Pharisee or a religious person spends their life dividing the world into good people and bad people.  As we have seen in Luke 5, Levi the tax collector would be on the Pharisees really bad list.  But the Pharisees themselves would have put thems...  Read More

May 31, 2019 Hey there awesome Church:  Have you ever struggled with being the spiritual wet blanket that extinguishes all evidences of God’s happy and joyful grace?  Are you quick to make rules and expectations that Jesus never made for righteous living?  When you sin do think you need to be re-saved?  Do your works define you?  Do you focus your spiritual attention more on what you do instead of...  Read More

May 24, 2019 Hey GCT:  This Sunday in Luke 5 we are going to see Jesus confront those who think that righteousness and acceptance before God comes from something besides Jesus Christ.  Many of us in our fomer years have suffered from legalistic tendencies, or we are still demanding from others more than Jesus does.  Or maybe we are enduring or recovering from the spiritual abuse of someone who is ...  Read More

May 17, 2019 GCT:  This week we will be looking more closely at several specific people in Luke 5, and how they were involved in healing and non-healing.  Yes, Jesus healed the leper and the paralytic but He also didn’t heal many other people who were present.  First and foremost we much rejoice in the fact that Jesus heals!  Jesus wants you to know that He has compassion on the diseased, the hung...  Read More

May 10, 2019 GCT:  Are you a believer or a disciple?  GCT, Jesus call us all to be disciples not just believers.  What is the difference?  Discipleship is costly!  Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is answering Jesus’ call to sit at His feet and learn from Him and change your life according to His teachings.  Discipleship involves repentance, obedience, dying to self, following, submission, sacrifi...  Read More

April 26, 2019 Hey GCT:  Think with me for a little bit about the word AUTHORITY.  What thoughts and emotions well up in your minds and hearts?  Scripture tells us that Jesus is our authority.  Matthew 28:18 says, "All Authority has been given to Jesus in heaven and on earth.”  That means that Jesus has the right to tell us what to do and what not to do.  Jesus’ words "possess authority” (Luke 4:3...  Read More

April 19, 2019 Good Friday GCT!  As we look to Sunday and celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead I want to ask you one question.  Do you believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead physically?  Just think with me for a moment how much of your life as a believer is dependent upon Jesus having risen from the dead.  Every prayer we pray, every hope we hope, every song we sing, ever...  Read More

April 12, 2019 Hey GCT:  What does God call His children to do over and over again throughout the story of redemption in Scripture?  Does He call us to a “believe me and I will show you” faith or an “I will show you first so that you can believe” kind of faith?  Well, I believe that time and time again He calls us to believe Him first and then He moves forward with us in our faith and makes His pr...  Read More

April 5, 2019 Hey GCT!  If you showed up one day and saw that Jesus was preaching at your place of worship what do you think he would be preaching about?  This week we have Jesus’ first documented sermon in the New Testament that He spoke back in His home town of Nazareth to a packed house.  At this point Jesus had a great, encouraging, glorified ministry of teaching respected by all but that was ...  Read More

March 29, 2019 Joyful beautiful warm day GCT!  This Sunday we are looking at Satan’s second and third vengeful tactics to tempt Jesus to embrace the path of abundance without pain and suffering by giving up the path of pain and suffering that His loving heavenly Father has lovingly led Him into.That is our temptation each and every day as we as believers fix our eyes on the pains of suffering inst...  Read More

March 22, 2019 Beautiful Friday GCT!  Do you desire the Holy Spirit to escort you out into a Spiritual Wilderness or even a physical wilderness?  What if you knew that that wilderness was intended to strengthen you and sanctify you?  Would you enter your wilderness with victory on your mind or defeat?  What would you take with you to insure your success? Think about the perfect, sinless Jesus perf...  Read More

March 19, 2019 Hey GCT:  This is a reminder for two great opportunities to grow in compassion and wisdom as believers this week.   We are called to have a faithful and compassionate response as believers for the faith that is in us.  These two opportunities this week will encourage and inform us as believers on what our biblical response should be as we live in a secularized culture in the midst o...  Read More

March 15, 2019 Hey there GCT!  For the first time, as we study the Gospel of Luke, we are introduced to the devil.  Do you really believe in the supernatural being of evil in these days of such science and secularism?  A 2009 Barna study says that a majority of “Christians” do not believe in Satan.  Well, we know for sure that Jesus believed in Satan and his demonic helpers.  Jesus did battle with...  Read More

March 8, 2019 Hey GCT:  I hope that you have been able to spend some time in the Gospel of Luke this week reading the exciting list of Jesus' genealogy  That really is some intense reading (3:23-38).  But pause and take a second to look who is in the family tree of Jesus on HIs mother Mary’s side.  Most of this list of 77 names are men representing families whose names do not appear anywhere in Sc...  Read More

March 4, 2019 Good morning church.   As we enter this season where we as the Church focus on and celebrate the death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, let us prepare our hearts to receive and understand why Jesus came to earth to die.  As we go through the gospel of Luke we are watching the story unfold of Jesus coming to fulfill all righteousness for us by becoming all sinfuln...  Read More

March 1, 2019 Hey GCT:  Some life changing thoughts spring from this weeks Scripture in Luke 3.  Jesus came to receive the baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins from John the Baptist.  Stop, and take that in to your mind and ponder that.  Jesus, the perfectly righteous Son of God, born of God, sinless Man, in no need of forgiveness or repentance gets in the baptism line with every othe...  Read More

February 22, 2019 Well GCT here is some amazing news on this rainy day and for every day.  Are you ready… Jesus baptizes with the Holy Spirit and Fire.  As John the Baptist’s popularity grew people thought that he could be the long promised Christ.  How did the humble Spirit-filled John the Baptist respond?  He responded with a description of the differences in baptism between Jesus and himself.  ...  Read More

February 8, 2019 Hey GCT:  We have arrived at the post-nativity stories of Jesus in Luke’s Gospel.  The first twelve years of Jesus’ life are summed up in Luke 2:40 "…the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon Him.”  We see in the verses following (2:41-52) the only story of Jesus during his first three decades of living.  This is the only glimpse we have o...  Read More

January 25, 2019 Hey GCT:  God loves it when His people live holy and righteous lives in the ordinary, mundane routine days, months and years that we live.  This week as we pick back up in Luke 2, we meet Simeon.  A man that shows up in the story of the Gospel and then leaves as quickly as he arrives.  We do not know much about him but he is righteous, devout, watching for the Messiah and the Holy...  Read More

January 18, 2019 Hey GCT:  Have you thought recently about being a steward and a servant in the Household of God?  You and me are part of a local church called GCT that God looks down as His household.  What an amazing thought and metaphor for how God views his local church.  Think of what God's household would be like.  But first put aside any thoughts that deal with the structure or the building...  Read More

January 11, 2019 Good Morning GCT:  Last Sunday night we as a church came together for a time of concerted prayer concerning salvations, physical healings and for us as a body of Christ moving forward in 2019.  Since that time of prayer there have been several reports of great recovery of several who have been sick and in great pain.  Also, the Lord has given opportunities for conversation and rel...  Read More

January 4, 2019 Mercy!  As we continue on in Luke we get to the second song of the Nativity.  The second song was sung by Zechariah after his tongue was loosed from nine months of silence.  And what came out of the mouth of a man who was suffering in nine months of silence?  Praise and blessing to God.  Zechariah reminds us of the great mercy of God through his song.  We cannot dwell too much on t...  Read More