Noun: It’s Thanksgiving.  Let’s eat! Vs. Verb – Let us give thanks for our many blessings. Thanksgiving is not a meal, it is a privilege, and if you love the Lord with all your heart, mind and strength, it is also an obligation.  THEN we eat! For all things are for your sakes, that grace, […]

Why do people use the Name of Jesus (the one Name under Heaven by which we can be saved”) as a curse? “Jesus Christ!” is the most often heard name used as an epithet in stressful situations. It is used liberally by Christians as much as those who don’t believe. How can we use the […]

Today at noon, I had the pleasure of giving the Word and loving the flock at Hope of The Valley Rescue Mission’s new headquarters at my old stomping grounds, the Central Lutheran Church in Van Nuys.  HOTV took over what was an old Lutheran Social Services suite of offices on the church property and is […]

I will let you in on something… This has been a very bad year for business.  It has also, praise the Lord, been a very GOOD year for ministry.   I am an executive recruiter that works on contingency.  This has been my job for the whole 20 years that I have been in ministry (for […]

Philippians 3:20 – For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. cit·i·zen- a native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to protection from it 2 Corinthians 5:20 – Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God […]

I was at a Bible Study last night that volunteers give weekly at the local Homeless Services hub, called the Samaritan Center here in Simi Valley. It was a great night. My wife, Donna, had decided to join us and there were about 15 of us, in all, clients of the Center who make the […]

I often hear some of my friends who go to various churches talk about how crucial it is to “witness” to unbelievers.  As they talk about it, and as I see them go about the work they feel they are told to do by the Bible, as they understand it, they talk about needing to […]

Let me begin this blog by saying that Christ’s desire for the Church as God’s Israel, the Body and Bride of Christ, is that we were and are to be a living organism, with many members, as a body has many members, and one Head, that is Jesus.  I maintain that Christianity, as we call […]

When God spoke, and said “Let there be Light” there was light, and it was good. As we are saints, set apart and called by the Most High God for His mighty Purposes, we must always remember that in Christ Jesus, our words too have power to do good in this place that we have […]

Let me begin this blog by saying “Thank You Jesus” for awakening this saint, servant and soldier to my true abundant life in Christ Jesus. When I said yes at 43 years old in 1995 it was a complete surprise to me, but no surprise to Him. “We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus […]