God Blogs

You already love God. You just may not yet know it. But when you finally encounter God, you will discover love for God already present in you as a gift, which has been waiting to surface and change your life. That will be the time your life with God shall truly begin, for which there […]

PSALM 121: YOUR TRUE HELPER In an emergency, when you need help, sensing that you cannot make it on your own, that you are suddenly not in control of impending events, most all of us turn immediately to God for help. That is why it is said that there are no atheists in fox holes. […]

God has taught me a contemplative form of prayer which I practice every morning, and during brief periods of the day. I call it “Abiding Prayer,” and it is based Jesus’ directing us to: “Abide in me as I abide in you…. Abide in my love” (John 15:4,9). Abiding prayer is less something you do, […]

Sometimes the simplest things can be the most profound. That is definitely the case with the book, The Practice of the Presence of God. It was posthumously compiled of letters and discussions with peers of a humble and unassuming lay brother in a Carmelite monastery in Paris. A disenchanted a young soldier, Nicholas Herman (1614-1691), […]

One of the prayers of John Wesley (1703-1791), who founded the Methodist Church, has been a constant companion for decades. It is about letting go of control, and letting God be in charge, something very difficult for me and for most of us: “I am no longer my own but Yours, Put me to what […]

Among the most comforting words Jesus Christ ever spoke, were those uttered shortly before He was arrested and crucified. As a pastor, I have said these words at virtually every funeral. Thinking of us rather than Himself, Jesus said: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my […]