November 3, 2017 Hey GCT: This Sunday John Zino will be leading us through Ephesians 2:11-16 while I am enjoying hanging out with our youth on a crazy fun Fall Retreat. The Scripture for this Sunday starts with a command for us to remember how dismal life is like without Christ and then quickly reminds us, once again, of what Jesus Christ has accomplished for us on His cross. "BUT NOW," Jesus as o...  Read More

October 27, 2017 “Amazing grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me!  I once was lost but now am found, was blind, but now I see.”  Amazing grace really is amazing!  In Ephesians 2 we are reminded that there is nothing boring about God’s grace.  It is the most amazing thing in the universe.  It is more amazing than family and friends, careers and cars, quarks and quasars, galaxies and...  Read More

October 20, 2017 GCT:   It has ben difficult to get past Ephesians 2:5-6, The Father, “made us alive together with Christ - by grace you have been saved - and raised up together with Him and seated us together with Him in the heavenly places in Jesus Christ.”  All of these verbs are past tense.  This reality stretches the human mind to comprehend all the implications in our present daily life that...  Read More

October 11, 2017 Hey GCT:  God is rich in mercy!  God has great love for us!  God the Father has made us alive TOGETHER with Christ!  God has raised us up WITH Christ in the heavenly places!  God is showing us the immeasurable GRACE in kindness IN Christ Jesus!  All of these are realities that God has intended us to be joyfully experiencing daily IN Christ.  These are not just facts to ponder but ...  Read More

October 5, 2017 Hey GCT:  This Sunday we will be looking at the reminder of the bad news of the Gospel in Ephesians 2:1-3.  We will be reminded of who we WERE before God made us alive together with Christ (v. 4), the good news of the Gospel!  Can you take a moment and read Ephesians 2 and ask yourself the question, “How can I love and praise God on the basis of these truths in 2:1-3?”   How can yo...  Read More

April 7, 2017 Hello Church:  As we enter the week that we call Easter remembering the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ will you join me in meditating on what happened at the cross with this verse -  2 Corinthians 5:21 “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, SO THAT we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”Join me in considering the implications of the cross of C...  Read More

Thursday, January 26, 2016 Psalm 2:1-6 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision. Then he will speak to them in his wrath, an...  Read More

Wednesday, November 23, 2016 John 15:11 These things I (Jesus) have spoken to you, that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.We worship a God who is JOYFUL.  We worship a God who has planned from eternity to bring us JOY by making us acceptable and holy in His sight.  We worship a God who has made a way for us through Jesus Christ to fill us completely with JOY.  Jesus wants us to k...  Read More

Tuesday, November 8, 2016 Psalm 103:19 The Lord has established His throne in the heavens, and His kingdom rules over all.Go to the polls today and throughout the rest of this life experiencing the effects of today’s vote knowing that God has established His throne in heaven and His kingdom rules over ALL.  “All” means even every candidate on your ticket at the voting booth today.  This is a remin...  Read More

Thursday, October 27, 2016 Romans 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.This week as we remember and celebrate the 499th Birthday of the Reformation let us enjoy and bask in what the Reformers fought to unleash from the corrupt Church of Rome…  The Bible clearly declares that our salvation from sin and death is through FAITH ALON...  Read More

Monday, October 17, 2016 Hebrews 4:9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.We worship a God who has given us rest in Jesus Christ!  That kind of rest is better than any other rest that we can possibly comprehend on this Earth.  As believers we can rest from working our way to righteousne...  Read More

Thursday, October 13, 2016 Proverbs 21:1 The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; He turns it wherever He will.As we look at the upcoming election and quite possibly get completely discouraged and hopeless, let us remember the truth of God’s Word.  Let us be forever hopeful remembering that yes, Hillary and Donald both have moral freedom, but the Lord turns and maneuvers thei...  Read More

Wednesday, September 21, 2016 Genesis 2:8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east…Mark 6:3  Is not this (Jesus) the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon?Our God is found gardening in Genesis and being a carpenter in the New Testament.  There is no job to small or insignificant for our LORD who is relentlessly laboring.  Any job that is good a...  Read More

Monday, September 19, 2016 Genesis 1:28  And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”Today, Monday, even though it may be difficult to admit, our work matters deeply to God. God has lovingly and with great purp...  Read More

Monday, September 12, 2016 Matthew 11:28  Jesus says, Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden (burdened), and I will give you rest.We live every day with this promise from our Lord Christ, “come to me and I will give you rest.”  And Christ is always faithful to fulfill His promises, He will always willingly come through to give you rest.  Jesus guarantees rest from whatever burdens you.  Fro...  Read More

Friday, September 9, 2016 Galatians 6:2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.Day by day as believers we live our lives in the reality that our Lord is going to place a burden on us.  What is a burden?  A burden is a tremendous weight, life difficulty, circumstance, occurrence, event, calamity, hardship, weakness, insult, persecution that the Lord has decided to either place...  Read More

Tuesday, September 6, 2016 Hebrews 13:20-21  Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.Our Great Shepherd, Jesus Christ, has a gr...  Read More

Monday, August 29, 2016 Psalm 23:1-3  The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures.  He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.Just think, as we move throughout our day today as believer’s who seek to be led by the LORD, we have the promise that our LORD’s shepherding care of us is done to ma...  Read More

Tuesday, August 23, 2016 Psalm 23:1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.Our God (Yahweh) in heaven loves to be called a Shepherd.  A Shepherd who has sheep that He loves and cares for at every moment of the day.  Our God who is perfect, holy and powerful loves to stoop down into our world where we sheep roam around and He shows loving care for us for our sake.  He is my Shepherd.  This confe...  Read More

Tuesday, August 16, 2016 Romans 2:4  Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?God’s kindness is always perfect.  His kindness and grace are truly amazing. The question Paul asks here is one that we should ask daily, “are we presuming that God’s kindness, forbearance and patience will always be a...  Read More

Monday, August 8, 2016 Psalm 100:3  Know that the Lord, He is God! It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of his pasture.Know this believer… Know that the LORD, Yahweh, is God, Elohim.  This is a command from God to us through the writings of David.  In other words, know that, Yahweh, the constant, independent, absolute, eternal, uncreated God that never changes, an...  Read More

Friday, August 6, 2016 Ephesians 2:4-7   But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace...  Read More

Wednesday, August 3, 2016 Psalm 19:9-11 …the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.What a great promise and encouragement!  Following Scripture, the rules of the LORD, is the great reward!...  Read More

Monday, August 1, 2016 Psalm 19:7 The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple…The testimony of the Lord, anything that the LORD has said through His Word, is sure.  That is it is reliable.  It is trustworthy.  You can count on everything that He has said about Himself through the stories, poems, Psalms, narrative, gospels, letters of the Bible!  It makes wise the simple.  This script...  Read More