Morningside Devotionals

View on Vocaroo >>   Memory is a strange thing. It’s attached to emotions, and as you age and experience life again and again, memory begins to change. It tends to drift toward certain objective events that, in the past, felt significant, and it tends to float toward the ones you want to remember. Memory is odd.   In people, memory becomes even stranger as aging and experience pile up across a lifetime. A thirty-year-old may have a sharp recollection of things from their teenage years. By forty, the mind starts to blur the edges, remembering more of the positive outcomes than the negative. At fifty, memory becomes more selective, pushing away things that weren’t pleasant, though some of them still remain and cannot be erased. By sixty, memory has become almost entirely selective.  A person remembers what they choose to remember, and the rest is pushed back into the recesses of the mind, where it no longer functions in daily thought. Remembering is vitally i...

View on Vocaroo >>   Purpose. Remember. With purpose — remember purpose. Remember that not only does your life, your witness, and your helping people become better learners, being taken back to Jesus has a purpose. But there is a purpose behind that purpose. Which is that there is an overall, overarching purpose that is taking place.  We’ve all heard the mysterious tales — or shall we say truths, as the best description — from Isaiah of the war in heaven. Michael and the angels, and in the Revelation of Christ, this is going on. We see these massive displays of power. And we know that at one time, Lucifer and a third of his angelic host turned against God and were thrown down to earth. We know they are eternal beings. We know they don’t just go away. Where are they?  Well, there are lots of mysteries in the Bible. There are lots of mysteries in worshipping God. There are lots of mysteries in loving, in worshipping, in asking forgiveness. Human beings confessin...

View on Vocaroo >>   A popular phrase in our culture, 2025 is feedback, which is, I guess responding to inquiries or answering questions or stating an opinion about a situation, I bet you're in. So when we're talking about disciples and we're talking about, remember; remember? The Times When feedback was positive for you? Remember the times when feedback was negative for you and remember the times when someone gave you feedback that was just extremely useful and remember the times when people gave you feedback, but it was useless.   What feedback really worked for you, what feedback did something for you that was beneficial? And what feedback did something for you that wasn't worth 2 cents in a spit storm? Feedback in a sense is essential in communication if instruction is all one way, but then it really isn't working? Remember that they were out in the desert and Jesus was talking with the disciples and he had just told Peter, how good they had done and h...

View on Vocaroo >>   So now we come to the matter of remember when it comes to paradigms. Paradigms are a very interesting set of presumptions. They are what we believe to be true, even though we have no cognizance of why we believe it, to be true. We just accept it, to be true, like fiat currency, a dollar bill, we believe that a dollar bill has a dollars value when we buy, for example, half a piece of bubblegum, today in 2025. For a 1$, because a dollar used to buy us about 10 pieces of bubble gum, they were a dime a piece, today; it will buy about half a piece of bubble gum. And inflation is out of control. Meanwhile, what do we have going on in terms of paradigms, we have beliefs, we have beliefs, for example. That certain things are the way that they are, and that's the way they're always going to be. None of that, according to the Bible is real because, according to the Bible, God is in charge. And God is not going to be mocked, and God will have the final say, ...

View on Vocaroo >>   One of the hardest things to keep in mind when you're talking about a process of remembering, especially when it comes to discipling, bringing people to Jesus, bringing them back to Jesus; disciples learners, they may apply to you, they may attach to you because you; and they; get along they're your friends. They're your loved ones, they're your family, they're the people close to you. They're the people that know that you sin. They're the people that have seen your sin, they know your secrets that you don't want other people to know.  But guess what, Jesus said ultimately, they're going to be shouted from the rooftops, so the idea that you need to think that you can keep anything secret from God is a joke but that you would keep anything secret from Jesus, is a worst kind of cynical reprise by the accuser! The devil who would love for you not to confess your sin to Christ. If he can convince you the confessing your s...

View on Vocaroo >>   Remember, not just that God blesses us, but remember the various ways that God blesses us and then remember that with the idea of passing that on.  One of my all time favourite companions was a fabulous poodle by the name of Sophie, she was absolutely amazing, she seemed to always be smiling and tolerating our human ways and she was beautiful, because she would be clear across the field of tall green grass and she would see me come out on the; Tarmac, and she would just come running, bounding across that field. And you remember that this beautiful coal, black, beautiful poodle, and she would just come bowling in the sun with the Christ joy, that's a visual that you remember with the sunlight, the just; the gaity of her presence.  Remember, not just that God blesses us, but remember the flavourings of the blessings. Remember the power of the blessings. Remember the moments of the blessings? Remember the people. God blesses us with people God b...

View on Vocaroo >>   I promise you, in the future, we're going to go to video, but I'm honestly trying to spare you having to see this face. It's bad enough to get old. It's way worse to have all of these wrinkles implemented by God to humble you; anyway, Hey; that and the fact that it used to have hair, and now it just has air. So Making disciples using a process of remembering recounting and recertifying, you could almost substitute the term retelling for recertifying? But certify is used in the New Testament, and I thought Paul using it was just a real kind of a shocker, but a real testimonial to how thoughtful Paul had become? How about the depth of what it means to work with people in bringing them back to Jesus continually? (Galatians 1:11) And we are really focusing in this first chapter on remembering and the fact that remembrances have an odd characteristic to them, and that characteristic is this, if you remember something in a good frame of referen...