Morningside Devotionals

The most amazing things happen in our times, and unfortunately some people are missing the miracle while they are wasting their times away fussing about things that nobody cares about. Think about it...look at Jesus, really look at what He did...when it was important, He got after it...that's why those writers who were inspired wrote about those things...think about it. The regular everyday of Jesus isn't in the gospel accounts, and we don't want it there, do we? I don't wanna know that Jesus got uptight about stuff, or had bad dreams, or came close to losing it once in a while, like me- but didn't- cause He is without SIN...YES indeed...Jesus was a man, just like us...only...He kept in touch with His Father, Our Father, God, who got Him through it without sinning...somehow... but I don't want to know those particulars- about Him, or you- or you know them about me...we're gonna know them soon enough anyway...and then it won't matter because we'll ...

Life comes at us as a fair proposition , what we put into it, is what we get out of it; or, as Dr. Joe Vitale of the movie and book "the Secret" says, "intend it! If you believe that it will happen, it will." The Bible says these very words as, "as you sow, so shall you reap." 2Cr 9:6 But this [I say], He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Finding the birth event of Christ, the parents of Jesus, and the people who were all around that, is such a momentous time; what it must have been like. Yet a sad truth is, based on how we handle the day, most days, we spend the hours of our lives complaining that God has put us into this? That we are in a situation we don't like, (yet we aren't going to change?), that we are in a place we don't like, (yet we aren't going to move?), that we are around people we don't like, (yet we aren't willing to risk having new fri...

What do you think happens to people who change in their walk of faith? Do they tire out? Do they lose vision? Do they let their relationship with God go sour? What happens, that we know them, feel close to them, and then just over a short period of time, they are gone? John said it happened because they were never really a part of us to begin with; 1Jo 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would [no doubt] have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. ...not doubting John, after all, he hung out with Jesus in the physical, and, so, John it would seem, would know? Yet as I study John much of history tells me he was dealing with issues which we today are not? So in that he was writing to, talking about, and thinking about issues which we aren't, are they the same? Will the suggestion to deal with legalistic Christianity and doubt also work for someone who has an emot...

We are very blessed people, speaking directly of my family, we are blessed, we have friends, and more than a few associates, and we have some fun in life, even though at times it is difficult. What you; as you read this might think is, "So what...", or, "yeah well, that's too bad...", or even, "yes I have been there..." What we maintain along with a lot of other very smart people is that we have three choices about situations in life, accept them, reject them, change them. In the circumstances of life we have opportunities to do and be and assist in the lives of others doing and being; if we choose to listen to the directions which say "here is another option." Where we run out of wisdom, the Bible has already anticipated it. Where we can't see a way, the Bible shines a light onto it. Where we believe there isn't a means, the Bible has already laid in a foot path. And the example of that is a baby who was born to the world, when ...

Sure you do, remember that first kiss? Clear back to the second grade, I remember mine, her name was Rhonda, and, they dared me, and, so, at recess; I went over to the fence and told her: "Rhonda," you can imagine this was a tense moment, "see those guys over there..." "Yeah," typical closed mouth woman (OK..girl...you win...), Redhead, freckles; "Rhonda, uh," now the tension was really building..." "Say it..." She wasn't liking all this drama either... and the sun was hot. "They dared me to kiss you, or they said they are gonna beat me up." "Liar, I know you're lying Dana, they never..." She had blue, azure eyes. "Yeah they did Rhonda, can you help me?" Ah, the first kiss, how about yours? "Hey man, I thought this was a devotional page, what are you talkin' about kissin' for?" Not kissin', firsts- and almost every person I know, remembers that first kiss, because it'...

Between the years 1800 and 1900 three generations of males were born, we don't know if the first born, 1800 all died before the end of the century, but we know that the percentages favored such, also the groupings favored that those born mid 1800 would not survive past 1900,however, the percentages and longevity factor became vastly enhanced after 1850, and by mid 1950 the average age of demise had risen from 47 years old to over 65; today it stands at 75 and according to at least one expert in exponential scientific discovery, a person alive and 55 years old in 2010 will likely live to be 125 years old! That is an increase slightly over 50% - which is extraordinary when anyone wants to say that they don't believe that God is at work in our world! The most staggering revelation of God in our lives being not what is said from the pulpits, not what is credited from the televisions and radios, not what is pushed from the internet and web based e-magazines; the most staggering...

David Blaine the Magician (note=Magi)has made a career out of leaving people spellbound, which is a term meaning you and I can't figure it out. Fundamentalists get all bent out of shape when you talk about simple things like magic, they shouldn't because it's not evil, it's just magic. On the other hand the person who is fooling you and I, can certainly turn it into something which isn't just magic, and that's the problem. The same thing is true of other epi-sciences, (note, epi- science, not pseudo-science, there is a very distinctive difference, and we're gonna get there next paragraph), and even extend to sciences considered too legitimate to be magical; which is the ultimate nonsensical statement. Consider the wonder of reality and quantum physics, just for a gentle moment that my prayer is, will leave you a little spellbound, even though David Blaine I'm not. Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D. , is a serious mind, a genius, a man of the highest laurels and ac...