Tex Messages

Remembering the martyrdom of Stephen may open us to the suffering of others and not lose our empathy in their sheer numbers. - Peace

Day by Day is how the first Christians lived in community pooling their resources and providing for any who had need. What can we learn from them and how can we apply it to our communities today? Peace

A witness is someone who accepts a responsibility for what they have seen. Jesus told the disciples who had witnessed his ministry, death and resurrection that they were to be his witnesses. How are we to live as witnesses to the resurrection of Jesus we have recently celebrated? Peace

I am discussing closed doors and how we might open them. John 20 holds the story of Jesus entering the locked room where the disciples were hiding after he was crucified and resurrected. I feel it gives us the way to overcome our fears and open the doors we have closed and locked to go out with courage and purpose. Peace

As Jesus rode a donkey into Eastern Jerusalem, Pilate rode a war horse accompanied be a Roman legion into Jerusalem from the West. Jesus, fulfilling Scripture, was also lampooning Rome, challenging the populace and us to decide who to follow: Raw Power or Vulnerable Peace.

Jesus reveals that God does not accept prejudice, and loves all people and desires us all to love one another as we are loved through The Woman at the Well story in John 4. Peace.

Abraham’s faith and the fears he faced and overcame to fulfill his life and God’s will to become a blessing to all people is the topic of my reflections; aimed at the aging church and the elderly.

Temptation comes to all of us, but in order to recognize it and respond to it I am looking at Jesus response to the tempter in the wilderness. Peace

Jesus began the Sermon on the Mount with the beatitudes and followed his inspired description of who we were created to be by the calling us The Salt of the Earth and the Light of the World. We are the world’s righteousness and truth. Here are a few remarks on You Are the Salt of the Earth. Peace

The following message is a reflection on Christ’s counter-cultural description on how humanity is to express its true self, living into the image of God in which we are created by living the beatitudes, thereby satisfying the longing of our souls and bringing peace to the world. Peace

This is a reflection on answering the call of God to move from marking time (chronos) to living our lives as the children of God (kairos). It may take an Ah-Ha moment to realize that our lives can experience a deeper meaning as was the case with those fishermen who left their nets to follow Jesus. Peace