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

May 25, 2018 Great Friday to you GCT:  We continue on in Ephesians 5, internalizing all the incredible implications of the command for “men to love their wives as Christ loved the Church” and this week we will begin to look into to call for “wives submit to your husbands as to the Lord.”  But lets stop for a while and ask, “Why are these commands even written to believers in the first place?  Are ...  Read More

May 18, 2018 Hey GCT:  We discussed last week and will continue to discover the implications of our call as husbands to love our wives as Christ loved the church.  This is the one and only relationship that God has assigned this responsibility.  Wow!  What a high calling!  The way husbands are to live and interact with their wives is to be a mirroring of the way Jesus loves us.  How are we able to...  Read More

May 5, 2018 Hey GCT:  What a life changing command in Ephesians 5:18!  As you know, whenever there is a command from Scripture it brings with it great responsibility for us to do something about that command - to be obedient to that command.  The greatness about this command, “Continually be filled with the Holy Spirit of God,” is that as we obey this command we get to experience God Himself in ou...  Read More

April 27, 2018 Hey GCT:  What a convicting verse, Ephesians 5:8  "...for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light."  In one verse we are reminded of how bad we were, “we were darkness” and how amazingly redeemed we are “you are now light in the Lord.”  Being light in the Lord brings power to overtake all spiritual darkness that we come in contact ...  Read More

April 13, 2018 Hey GCT:  Last week we looked at Ephesians 5:1-2 and the great sweet-smelling principles of the Christian life.  If we simply do 5:1-2, nothing can defeat us as a child of God.  We get total access to our Father in heaven with perfect protection as an heir having everything we will ever need.  As we live in 5:1-2, God looks on us as a sweet smelling aroma… and then here comes 5:3-7....  Read More

April 7, 2018 Good Morning GCT:  How often do you consider your God given role as a missionary in Hampstead, NC?  The late archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple, said, “The Church is the only institution that exists primarily for the benefit of those who are not its members.”  Together, as we exist as GCT, we function together as salt of the earth and the light of the world to be strategically ...  Read More

March 30, 2018 Very Good Friday GCT:  Good Friday of Holy Week certainly is good but the results are very very good!  Romans 5:8 tells us,  "...but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”  and 1 Peter 3:18 says, For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but ma...  Read More