December 6, 2018 GCT:  Last week we began our journey through Luke's Gospel of “exact truth (1:4)” of the good news of Jesus Christ so that "we may know with certainty (1:4)" that God has sent us a Savior, the promised Messiah.  Luke begins the story of Jesus with John the Baptist.  This great story of Zechariah and Elizabeth is one that brings great encouragement to my heart.  This is a great sto...  Read More

November 29, 2018 Hey GCT: Have you ever had what seemed to be a mosquito buzzing around your faith?  An annoying buzzing of doubt that persists and keeps you up at night because the mosquito of doubt follows you everywhere.  Buzz buzz buzz!  The mosquito of doubt questions if all of this Jesus stuff and Bible stuff is really true?  Can I really be forgiven?  Can I really have my prayers answered?...  Read More

November 21, 2018 Hey GCT!  I hope that you are ready to enjoy this Thanksgiving weekend with a heaping hot portion of thankfulness.  This week has been a reminder of a great shortcoming in my life… unthankfulness!  I have been studying the theology of thankfulness over the last week as some of my close friends have pointed out to me my unthankful spirit.  I am thankful for my honest, sanctifying ...  Read More

November 2, 2018 Hey GCT.  As we leave the USA and have very little contact with you over the next week, I ask for you to please covenant with us in prayers.  Here are seven ways you can pray as we serve in Haiti.  1. Pray for much of God’s grace upon us when something goes wrong.2. Pray for the gathered church of GCT and the church in Haiti to encourage each other.3. Pray for the hearts of those ...  Read More

October 26, 2018 You know when God gave us the first two commandments of the Ten Commandments He assumed that we will all be worshipping something.  We all ascribe ultimate value to something.  When we ascribe ultimate value to something we are worshipping that something.  We tend to live for it.  When we do not get it we get fearful or angry, depressed, anxious, etc.  If we do get that thing we h...  Read More

October 19, 2018 Hey GCT:  "Vain.”  What a scary word, especially when it comes from Jesus Christ.  Vain means worthless, useless, producing no results.  As we continue to look at "what this thing is that we call church" we have arrived at what exactly it is that we are called to do?  Our Lord has called us as His covenant people to WORSHIP.  Worship is our response to our Lord, always.  God gives...  Read More

October 11, 2018 GCT: I want to call us all to prayer once again today and the upcoming days as we wait for a response from the owner of the building that we put a bid on last weekend. Would you please join me in prayer and fasting unto the Lord for GCT to have great honor and favor with all those that are involved in making the decision on the owner’s side. Also, please let us seek a unity of hea...  Read More

September 26, 2018 Good morning GCT:  I feel the need to clarify how we as GCT can help our neighbors as a church.  Please, by all means serve your neighbor however you are led.  However, as we are called to help as a joined force called GCT please let us understand our limitations and that many services will be covered by trained relief organizations, personal insurance or maybe FEMA.I have talke...  Read More

September 16, 2018 Hey GCT: Tonight as we endure our 57th hour of hurricane rain and I am not able to sleep, a critical spirit ran through my heart directed to God and I questioned Him about this Florence. Then His Spirit directed me to Job when God asks Job a long series of questions. Here are only a few. Don’t forget this is God questioning Job between chapters 38-41. And also directed to me, He...  Read More

September 13, 2018 Father in heaven who controls all storms, waves, wind, water, rain, trees please have mercy upon your children who You love and care for perfectly. We are the recipients of endless and abounding grace from You daily and now we ask to be surrounded by Your mercy. You tell us that You are a God who is merciful and gracious, abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, please Lord...  Read More

September 7, 2018 Here we are GCT… as Jesus describes us, branches attached to the vine, Himself.  Here is Jesus speaking to us about us saying that there are two type of branches in His Church.  There is the branch that does not produce fruit and then there is the branch that does produce fruit.  Here we are as His Church attached to the Vine as either a fruit producing branch or a fruitless bran...  Read More

August 31, 2018 Hey GCT:  As believers, who love their church, sometimes we are involved in those wonderful church conversations that start something like this:"As believers you do not have to be a part of a local church.  Church is optional, Jesus never said to do church the way you do every Sunday.  In fact on Sunday morning or any other day of the week when I curl up in my comfy orange chair, s...  Read More

August 24, 2018 Hey GCT:  Have you turned your eyes upon Jesus lately?  Do you frequently look into His wonderful face?  And when you do that have you ever experienced the things of Earth growing strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace? Hebrews 1:1-4, is like a Jesus rocket, that propels the reader to the limits of words to help us understand who is our Savior, Jesus Christ.We have a Sav...  Read More

August 2, 2018 Hey GCT:  Sit and ponder how loving a heavenly Father we have in that our repentance is what creates rejoicing in heaven.  What gets the myriads and myriads of spiritual powers in heaven really excited - our repentance.  Why does repentance create rejoicing in heaven?  Because repentance is when I submit to the Spirit of God Himself to do battle and win against my own flesh.  This b...  Read More

July 31, 2018 Ephesians 4:15-16 ...speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.Hey GCT:  I want to to relay to you all of the encouraging words of thankfulness t...  Read More

July 28, 2018 Hey GCT:  I hope that you have been encouraged to be on the offensive in your spiritual battles this week knowing that you have the complete arsenal and weaponry to reign down a holy terror upon the spiritual powers of darkness that are trying to destroy your soul.  As you enjoy and trust in the complete armor of God that we have in Jesus Christ, this Sunday we will be reminded that ...  Read More

July 20, 2018 GCT:  Spiritual warfare is what happens when Christ enlists you in His cause and equips you to join His battle of reconciling all things to Himself.  As a believer you are in a daily battle whether you acknowledge it or not.  You are wrestling against spiritual powers of darkness and the schemes of the devil (Eph. 6:11-20).  If you are depending upon your own wisdom, reasoning and st...  Read More

July 14, 2018 Hey GCT:  How often do you consider that at any given moment there is a myriad of spiritual forces of evil that oppose you in all that you ever do for the Lord or anything you do from faith?  We are called to be prepared for the fact that the moment we are inclined to repent and begin to turn to Jesus in faith or to do His will the devil will exert himself with a vengeance to use all...  Read More

July 6, 2018 GCT:  Have you ever felt hopeless in your employment?  You can’t see how you are going to get through the next ten years or ten days at your present job?  How is your relationship with your boss and your work ethic to be different?  Paul has a word for us in Ephesians 6:5-9 to encourage us in what it looks like “to be filled by the Spirit of God” in our workplace.  Paul is speaking di...  Read More

June 29, 2018 Hey GCT:  We are back from ATL and ready to finish up Ephesians 6, with Part 2 of “Your Calling as Parent.”  We will be looking once again into the only verse in the New testament that directly speaks to parents, Ephesians 6:4 "Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”  Most likely as parents we tend to focus on ...  Read More

June 15, 2018 GCT: "The world’s smallest battlefield is your child’s heart.  And the conquering of it calls for all-out, hand-to-hand combat.”  I am sure you see this on the daily.  You can see each and every day your child’s heart is a battlefield where sin and righteousness are in conflict.  This week we are going to be in Ephesians 6:1-4, again while focusing on 6:4 specifically, "Fathers, do n...  Read More

June 8, 2018 GCT:  Here is the list that I promised you that I consolidated from several of you who responded to how we can practically fulfill our God given roles in our marriage relationships based upon Ephesians 5:22-33.  Just in time for the weekend.  - Enjoy in the Lord!Husbands – How you can practically show that you love your wifeas Christ loves the church. - Written by wives 1.     Establi...  Read More

June 8, 2018 GCT:  This week we will be begin to look at the implications of Ephesians 1-3, upon the relationship of parents and children.  Since your children do not receive this email this is to encourage you in the discussion of the Lord’s expectations of them to obey you - their parents.  There is such a great need for parents to see that the essence of their relationship with their children i...  Read More

June 1, 2018 Hey GCT:  This Sunday we will be finishing our time looking into to this “mega mystery” marriage relationship that God created for man and woman to cleave and become one for the purpose of showing to the world the love Jesus has for us - the church and how we - the church love Him as we submit (Ephesians 5:21-33).  We are reminded that our marriages and the husband and wife roles are ...  Read More