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

January 3, 2019 Hey GCT:  Please plan on coming together as the Church body this Sunday night (1/6) at the Grace210 building at 6:00pm.  We will be devoting the night to prayer focusing on three areas:1.  Spiritual healing for those in our families, friends, neighbors who are need of salvation/redemption2.  Physical healing for those in our church who are suffering physically and who live in great...  Read More

December 28, 2018 Hey GCT:  As we move into another year as the GCT body of Christ we continue with the life-changing story of the nativity in Luke this Sunday.  As you look at the nativity in Luke you see that Luke includes the four nativity songs sung by Mary, Zechariah, the angels, and Simeon.  Only Luke writes about these four songs of worship.   These are the first Christian hymns ever writte...  Read More

December 21, 2018 GCT:  The JOY of Scripture at Christmas time is overwhelming!  I pray that you are increasing your joy this Christmas through reading the world of God.  When you go through Scripture with the desire to find the truths of Christmas you will find the reasons for Jesus coming everywhere.  They start to jump off of every page.  Christmas is everywhere in the Bible.  The Son of God co...  Read More

December 14, 2018 GCT:  Rejoice – Rejoice, Emanuel shall come to thee!  I hope that you have been enjoying Luke’s first chapter as much as I have.  The story of Mary and Gabriel is epic!  This story is one of profound mystery and amazing love.  Gabriel declares to a thirteen year old little girl, who has not even made it through puberty, that she has found favor and will bear a child, the Son of G...  Read More

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