Category Archives: Transformation
Heightened Awareness
Sometimes I believe that the reason I am in politics is more to observe people than to serve them, though the latter is my calling. The former, politics, is certainly a great tool for schooling me in the relevance of … Continue reading
Can I get a Witness!
I have not been able to get past a scripture read earlier in the week, Luke 20:20…in fact now another thought comes to mind as I write: 20/20, the keen ability Jesus had to discern the thoughts and motives of … Continue reading
Embrace the Cross
These were the words I heard in my spirit a couple weeks ago, as I struggled with why I would give more of my time and risk more of my resources, to pursue a political position in this now divided … Continue reading
The Pearl
This morning as I was doing my reading, now a wide range of inputs from scripture to Facebook, I came across a fact that began to carry my thoughts: pearls dissolve in vinegar. Pearls seem to represent personal value, as … Continue reading
The Magnificent Christ
I continue to be amazed at how the scriptures read so differently each time I pass through the pages of my Bible. The text never changes barring translations, but even when reading the same translation, the message or at least … Continue reading
The Sermon on the Mount
This morning my devotional reading has carried me into Matthew, arriving at the Beatitudes. However, of more interest to me than the text of this “Sermon on the Mount,” was where my spirit went when I read the words from … Continue reading
The House of Judah
I continue to be amazed at the encouragement that I am experiencing around my study of Judah and Joseph this year. For those who have been reading my blog for some time, you know the infatuation I have always had … Continue reading
Parallels
I sit here this a.m. reflecting on almost 40 years of service to the church and to my community. Grateful for the scores of lives touched in multiple cities; conversations and interventions of which many of those served were unaware. … Continue reading
Aspirations
This morning and particularly with the events planned for this coming week, there seems an almost overwhelming awareness to the growing confluence of the many unrelated sectors of my life. Unrelated in that each could stand singularly on its own; … Continue reading
Does Your Community Know You?
I was praying just a few weeks ago about how entrenched I was becoming in the political arena, and in fact, that it had been sometime since I had spoken in a church outside typical deacon duties at WS1st. I … Continue reading

