March 19, 2021 Church Family:  As we live our lives in this world as followers of Christ and we watch the chaos unravel each day with an ever-increasing level of evil, do we get a sense that there is an organized power behind these movements and systems and individuals?  Do we think there must be a leader, an organizer, a General in charge of these consistent and pointed attacks?In our world today...  Read More

March 12, 2021 Church Family:  There is a spiritual war going on between heaven and earth and your soul is the bounty.  Everyday we see a visible manifestation of this worldwide spiritual battle between Satan, the Church and individual believers.  We see this battle in our own lives.  In Revelation 12, Jesus reveals to us who the players are in this battle.  First, Satan has been trying to defeat ...  Read More

March 5, 2021 Church Family: Did you know that the most famous piece of music ever written was completed in 1742, by George Frederic Handel?  After suffering a sever stroke at age 52, Handel finished his greatest piece of choral musical work, Messiah.  There are three parts of the Messiah that cover Jesus’ birth, the Crucifixion, resurrection and all the way to His second coming as the reigning K...  Read More

February 26, 2021 Church Family:  I want to take a moment and remind us who we are in Christ as we have arrived at some difficult passes in Revelation 11.  As a believer, a follower of Christ, a Christian, your identity is defined by God and your relationship to Him.  Who you are is not determined by anyone else.  No one has the power to determine who you are but your loving heavenly Father.  Your...  Read More

February 19, 2021 Happy rainy day to you Church:  As you read through God’s Word you generally find Scriptures that are easy to understand.  But, there are a few that are not that easy.  Revelation 11, is full of these hard-to-understand scriptures.  Revelation 11, is generally the subject of more interpretive mysteries and disagreements than any other chapter in Revelation.  Yet, there are so man...  Read More

February 12, 2021 Church Family: When evil is everywhere and the world is ripe for judgment, can God protect his own?When economies crash, when civil order falters and the social fabric frays, when restraint and respect give way to invasive aggression and random violence, when greed and animal appetite reign supreme: Can God keep Jesus’ little flock safe as they stand seemingly defenseless in the ...  Read More

February 5, 2021 Hello Church Family:  If someone were to come up to you today and ask you the question, “ What idol do you worship?”  You would most likely laugh at them and then dismiss them as strange and offensive.  In our 2021 American culture we don’t usually think of people worshipping idols in our neighborhoods.  But, when we go back through Scripture we see that the most frequently discus...  Read More

January 29, 2021 Hello Church Family:  Regret is easy and comes at us pretty fast.  Shame will jump on us in a flash.  We will carry remorse around for days, weeks, moths and even years.  But, repentance is rare and difficult.Repentance tends to be a fleeting thought that we can reason away into a forgotten fog of justification.  And yet, our Holy God requires repentance for our entrance into His ...  Read More

January 22, 2021 Church Family:  If you are like myself, we generally like things that bring pleasure, health and safety.  This is our natural human bent and we tend to make decisions based upon pleasure, health and safety.  However, as believers we are called to make decisions differently.  On this earth we are to make decisions first and foremost that show our love for the Lord our God and then ...  Read More

January 15, 2021 Church Family:  God hears our prayers.  He hears every one of our prayers.  He keeps all of our prayers and the prayers of every one of His followers that has ever been prayed from the beginning.  In fact, we see that when the seventh seal is opened in Revelation 8:1-5, the final seal that brings about the end of history, the prayers of all the saints are exactly what ushers in th...  Read More

January 8, 2021 Church Family: How often do you think about heaven?  Do you ever stop and contemplate the truth that your eternal citizenship is in heaven (Phil. 3:20) and that is where you will be spending eternity?  Do you ever slow down to consider the God-given promises that are your guarantee in eternity and how those realities should have an impact on today?  Just think about how much time a...  Read More

January 1, 2021 Good Morning Church:  Well, personally, this marks my 10th day with Covid and the last time I counted our church was up to 28 people sick with or without Covid.  Many have been tested and are positive some have not been tested but still have the same symptoms of those that tested positive.  And yet, some have hardly any symptoms and are positive. So, as I have been in quarantine, a...  Read More

December 18, 2020 Church Family:  In the Christmas story we are continuously reminded that God has sent us a Savior.  This is the celebration of every Christmas and every day.  A Savior has come to save us and redeem us!  What a great and glorious gift.  The gift that keeps on giving for eternity.  Listen to those in the Christmas story praising God for a Savior who brings salvation:Mary’s song of...  Read More

December 15, 2020 Hello Church Family:  I want to share with you how GCT has been changing during COVID so that you can minister to our body most effectively.  You are the body of Christ and we have been given a tremendous opportunity for ministry!1) If you look at the families that made up GCT on March 1, 2020, when COVID lockdowns started, we still have 27% of church members that remain quaranti...  Read More

December 11, 2020 Church Family:  Jesus!  The Lamb standing as though it had been slain (Rev. 5), is worthy to open the scroll of the promises, purposes, and plans of God because He is God.  He has ransomed people from every tribe, language, people and nation.  He has made us, followers of the Lamb, a kingdom of priests to our God and we shall reign with Him in His kingdom!  That is the good news ...  Read More

December 4, 2020 Church Family:  People conquering people, war, famine, and death.  Do these four veins of tribulation create with your heart a festive merry Christmas?  These four veins of tribulation have been present in every generation and at every Christmas.  These four common ways of tribulation have been ravaging the earth since Cain and Abel in Genesis 4.  But, in Revelation 6, at the othe...  Read More

November 27, 2020 Happy Thanksgiving Church Family:  Do you worship Jesus as the Lion?  Or do you worship Jesus as the Lamb?  Or do you worship Jesus as the Lion and the Lamb? If you are worshipping Jesus as only the Lamb or only the Lion you are worshipping only half the God that Jesus is intended to be to you.  Don’t miss out on Jesus’ Lion excellencies or His Lamb excellencies.  If we enjoy onl...  Read More

November 20, 2020 Church Family: Are you struggling today?  Does life seem futile?  Is all your hope gone?  Does it seem like that the enemies of God are winning in your family in your work in your country?  Ok, stop, wait!  Jesus desires us to look at things from His perspective by asking, “What is going on in heaven today, right now?"  As we wake up and live and struggle and do life and persever...  Read More

November 13, 2020 Hey there Church family:  Have you ever thought about your actions being so spiritually nasty that they make Jesus want to vomit them out of HIs mouth?  The lukewarm church in Laodicea had that effect upon Jesus.  They were complacent, self-satisfied, self-reliant, self-promoting in their pride so that they produced works that made Jesus want to vomit them out of his mouth like a...  Read More

November 6, 2020 Hello Church Family: You know, despite our American culture that says, “bigger is better,” Jesus loves the “mini-church”!  The Church in Philadelphia was one of “little power” (Revelation 3:8) because of the great persecution, slander, hatred, animosity and the prideful posturing of the secular culture and the religious culture within their community.  They were “little in power” ...  Read More

October 30, 2020 Hello Church Family:  One important lesson in church life is the understanding that what we might say is God-honoring liveliness in a church or in our own lives, God may see as empty, hallow, and leading to the spiritual death of the church and us.  And yes, these kinds of thoughts keep me up at night.  Just because one may see a church with thousands of people, millions of dollar...  Read More

October 23, 2020 Hello Church Family:  This week we walk with the church of Thyatira in Revelation 2, being reminded that Jesus had a big problem with this local church.  I am sure that you are with me when I say, "I do not want Jesus to have a problem with GCT!”  So, what was their problem?  Tolerance.  Now, you may be thinking what is the big deal with being tolerant?  Yes, some specific toleran...  Read More

October 16, 2020 Hello Church Family:  This week in Revelation 2:12-17, we learn how to bring a war upon our church from Jesus Christ.  I know that all of us together will say, we never want to be at war with Jesus, ever, especially in His own church.  What was the Pergamum church doing to be threatened by Jesus Christ with such violent words?  The Pergamum church had become very tolerant to false...  Read More

October 9, 2020 Good Morning Church Family:  Being a Christian in many places in our world has been proven to shorten lives.  Are we heading in that direction in America?  The church in Smyrna of Revelation 2, was suffering and their lives were shortened because they were faithful followers of Christ.  They were enduring great tribulation, slander, persecution, put in jail and even executed for th...  Read More