POSTS & COmments

“Staying right at the center of God’s love, keeping your arms open and outstretched, ready for the mercy of our Master, Jesus Christ. This is the unending life, the real life!” (Jude 21, The Message) Evil wants us to look too far back or too far forward. Back to the...

The blood of Jesus, God’s Son, continually cleanses us and empowers us for life. (John 1:7) (click Source below for full post) John: Good morning, Papa, thank you for the blood in our physical bodies that continually cleanses and feeds us. More so, thank you for the...

The Big Leboski (The Big Deal really. I just wanted to use the movie title. LOL!), in all the struggles we have with relationships and “know”ing each other, is that we distract from knowing God. This dissipates us. “And this is the real and eternal life: That they...

(Click Source below for full post.) John: Thank you, Papa, for creating me and for staying with me. Thank you for thinking me up. In my very human humanity, I get to be like Jesus, “found in fashion as a human.” Thank you for helping me get through very human and...

“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb” (Revelation 22:1, TNIV) (click “Source” below for full post) I asked God: Please tell me more about healing and grace and the throne and You...

The moment we turn God’s free grace into law-keeping and check-listing our works, we die. We may love the Old Testament; it gets us ready for Jesus’ obedience and grace, but the moment we adopt or adapt some sort of law and make that a mark of success or failure,...

(click Source for all) When battles rage in the heavenlies you and I may feel oppressed and depressed. This may not be about us but about the battle. If we can discern this it may help us to not crash in confusing defeat. Daniel tells us about such a battle and how it...

(Click "source" for full post) Below are four teachings found in John's Gospel (St. John) by Jesus about the One who has arrived to live in us and continue Jesus' own earthly relationship in and with and through us: John 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and he will...

(Click "source" for all) Me: I love my time with you all (Papa Father, Lord Jesus, and Holy Spirit: God). How do you want me to spend it? God: On us! LOL! We like hanging out with you and we have plenty of time to do so. Me: Okay. I will spend this time with you....

“Old men will dream dreams” Acts 2:17 My (John Parker's) Dream today: The four-inch-long light-brown beetles (in my hand or a small bag) and I barged in on a church board meeting to get volunteers to care for the beetles. Enthusiastically, I appealed for them to take...

I woke up a couple of times Saturday morning feeling relaxed and “strangely” happy. I don’t know why. Most mornings I’m tense—in a spiritual battle—fighting off deceitful messages of fear and failure. (By the way, it’s now Sunday, and I again awoke more relaxed and...

(click "Source" for full post) Paul of Tarsus writes: “Actually, I don’t have a sense of needing anything personally. I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances.” (Philippians 4:11, The Message) Sense of needing anything personally—thanksgiving...