Church Family, It is HOPE Wednesday and I am excited for you and I as we prepare to come together this evening. It is also now three days before Family, Friends and Community Weekend. I am also excited about this wonderful time of fun, fellowship and food based on our faith walk with God and our desire to share our love for each other and others. We need time like this to gather because it gets hard out in the world sometimes. Let us all admit it. We all worry about something some of the time. Some of us, if we are completely honest, worry about something all of the time. Should we? Well, it depends on who has you covered. If I have to depend on me, I know who I see in the morning. I kn
Beloved, Do we serve a good God or what? By the wisdom and guidance of God, we chose to weather, not tempt or test, the storm and God blessed us with a phenomenal worship service to celebrate our wonderful, annointed women of Zion Memorial. And, God allowed us to witness three people making a decision to join our church family, one desiring to be baptized. Again, do we serve a good God or what? If we know that we serve a good God, then would it not be best to seek Him and serve Him so that His goodness, His greatness, His grace could be bestowed on us all the time? Would that be wise? Are you wise? In terms of wisdom, James 3:16-18 says, "For where there is envy and selfish ambition, ther
Beloved, We had such a joyous time together on Sunday. How it blesses my soul when the church family gathers. It is one of the most treasured events of my week. I hope and pray that you are still meditating on the message “You Have Jesus But Does Jesus Have You?” You see, in Jesus, we have something that the world does not always offer. The world has a long memory regarding what we did wrong. If you did something wrong yesterday, somebody is likely to bring it back up today. And, your yesterday could be 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago; but, some people will not let it go. The world offers condemnation which is tantamount to you being convicted of a crime with no way to fully or completely pay y
Beloved, It is Wednesday. It is a few days before we join together again as a church family. How good it was to see you on Sunday and how I am looking forward to seeing you again on this upcoming Sunday. We are in a day and age that is a bit different from days gone by. People feel greater freedom to express themselves in a variety of ways. One of those ways is in getting tattoos or as some might say, "Getting inked up." Because I grew up in an era where few people got tattoos, I used to react out of my comfort zone and wonder why people would do something that would permanently change their look and forever put a sign or message on their body. As I have matured, thanks be to God, I have
