Morningside Devotionals

Can life actually be a vignette and not a novel? It always fascinates me to hear the responses of those who claim they don't believe in God when someone says that they will pray for them.  Especially in the midst of tragic moments, momentous events such as births and deaths, and life changing events; the mention of someone who says they will pray for you, simmers the most anti- of anti God types.  Ever notice that?  Sure you have, but was it a vignette or the beginning of a novel? You were expecting, something else?  Do you think God expects something else? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFl1VgNfU8w

Watching this massive movie, " The Kings Speech ," only Click here to movie database served to remind me of so much that I take for granted, which this great man could not.  My wife has always loved the Royal's, and, I've always thought she was silly for carrying on about them.  Now, as has become my custom this last decade, yet another heaping helping of "Crow."  One can only hope it's not an insult to an otherwise noble bird. You on the other hand, shall not get off so easily, as it appears that the words of this King, no not George the VI'th, but the King, Jesus, of Nazareth, shall call you to a duty that is in line with what the King called his noble subjects of England into when resisting the Hitler move to encompass the world in a nightmare of his creation. This great movie of the struggles of one who was very challenged to speak in public, who stammered, is yet another reminder of how powerfully we are set into motion by...

Five minutes, it isn't a long time, it's an elevator ride in an enormous building downtown, it's a brief parking garage ride, it's a transit of the park - five minutes isn't very long at all.  Five minutes can be, however, the longest and most important minutes of your day, if, you spend those five minutes in meditation.  Five minutes can change your life, make your life better, happier, more fulfilled, five minutes.  Five minutes isn't a long time. If you look at your watch or a clock on the wall, choose a time to start, and literally time out five minutes; you'll discover it's longer than you might believe.  Separated time is different, dedicated time is different; the time in length is the same, always will be, set by the atomic clock, a second is a second and minutes have 60 of them, and that's just the way it is.  When you stop your life, for five of them, though, something changes. Meditation sits in the family of concentrat...

The most remarkable thing about the truth of the power of God is that, when God wants to get your attention, God does.  http://www.informedfaith.com/cac/singlesermon/10010