Pastor Goforth

Lay down his life for his Friend

June 17th, 2025
ton philos – The Friend

I have preached many times from John 21 about the interaction between Peter and Jesus as he is calling him again to service. Peter had denied Christ three times before his crucifixion. He felt like a failure and was perhaps considering forgetting it all and going back to fishing.

You probably know that Jesus asked Peter, Do you love me? He used the word agapao. (unconditional God-like love. Peter answered less confidently, but honestly, you know that I phileo (love) you. That word means “love” but it is more conditional, more “like” than “love”. We would say that’s a step below agapao.

Jesus asks again – agapao? Peter answers the same, phileo.

Then, the Third Time, Jesus changes his word to match Peter’s and says, “do you phileo me?” Peter answers, “you know everything, you know I phileo you”

Agape is a God kind of perfect love, we strive for it, but Phileo is a friendship.

All three times, Jesus then tells Peter, feed my sheep/lambs. God can use us where we are, but more than that he wants to…

Go back to the night before his crucifixion:

Jesus is walking after the Passover meal toward the Garden of Gethsemane to pray, and talking with The Twelve in John 15
- I am The Vine… you are the branches
- Abide in me… apart from me you can do nothing
- As the Father agapao (loved) me I have agapao you
- then… agapao one another
- v13 no greater agape than to lay down your life “ton philos” (the Friends)
Being one who has phileo for Christ is not coming short of expectations, but falling in line with his desires for us. The greatest love, agape, comes out of commitment to being ton philos – the Friend.

v14 you are my philos if you DO (poieo = to make / fashion) what I command

They have come a long way in their walk with Christ from hearing him, to following him, to believing him, to serving him, and now…

v15 I don’t call you servants anymore… I have called you friends (philos)

v16 you didn’t choose me, I chose you, and appointed you to produce lasting fruit

As I read these verses this morning I immediately thought of John 21… Jesus was telling Peter, “you won’t always get agape correctly, but I didn’t call you to be perfect, I called you to be MY FRIEND.”

He was saying, “Peter I knew you before I called you, before you answered, before success or failure, good days or bad. I chose you to be MY FRIEND. Do and Shape what I have said, and the agape will come along the way.

If there is a marker one day to say something about me, maybe just a tag on a bench at a golf course, I want it to be:
- the Friend of God – Ton Philos
What Connects me with the Love of God? – Romans 8:35

May 21st, 2025

Romans 8 is beautiful! v12 says we are not obligated to the flesh, to live according to it – our obligation was released by faith in the finished work of Christ at the cross. I CAN sin, but I’m not bound to it any longer.

v15 – we’ve received a Spirit of adoption… 16 the Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God 17 … (we are) co-heirs with Christ.

This world is hard and suffering is real, but so is our inheritance. We were born sinners, under condemnation, but IN Christ, we gain more than just being an heir – kleronomoi – but immediately Paul strengthens his statement to co-heirs – SYNkleronomoi = co-inheritor.

I’m mindful of John 10 Jesus saying that no one can take us from his hand, nor from the Father’s hand.

So the connection to the Love of God is deeper than emotion or feeling, but there is a legal commitment, knowledge, and purpose of God.

v23 – The Spirit, elsewhere is called a deposit, but here is called a firstfruit – God gave him to us as a taste of a greater harvest / inheritance that is to come – aparchen = firstfruit or first piece.

My bride often makes cupcakes. When she does, she brings me one, the first one, it’s just a taste, but I know that a whole plate is in the other room. The Spirit is a first piece, first taste, first fruit… of what God has for me in the other room

v25 – we hope for what we do not see

v26-27 – the Spirit helps us pray right and intercedes for us

v28 – then we all quote – all things work together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. Too Often one of two things happens here. 1) we stop right there on that verse alone 2) we read the next verses without connecting them to this verse. God has a connection based on legal obligation, his knowledge of who we are, and his purpose in adopting us.

v29 – for those he proginosko (knew beforehand) – those God knew beforehand would become his adopted sons (children) – How do we become his adopted sons? John 1:12 – to as many as received him… believed in his name… gave the right to become the children of God. “To all” – hosoi = whatever, as many as, how much, inasmuch, those whom – “THOSE” – he – proorizo = predetermined, foreordained, predestined – to WHAT? to be conformed to the image of his Son.

God knew I would receive, believe, and become his child, with full rights and become a Co-Heir WITH Christ – So,

v30 he called… justified… glorified me. All of that action is “past tense” from antecedent history, that I would be a son that shares in the inheritance of Christ.

v31 what then are we to say about those things? – Oh we are going somewhere here – what then are we to stay… if God is for us, who can be against us?

Oh I Might SHOUT HERE!

v32 he who did not spare his own son… will he not also grant everything?

* All of this Connects us to the Love of God

In ancient Hebrew Law, you could not disinherit an Adopted Child. We have been Adopted, knowing we would believe, receive, and become his children – He knows that while I may not appear as much right now, He is Conforming me to the image of Christ, so that Christ is the Firstborn of MANY Sons – That’s his Purpose – SO

v35 – WHO – Greek word is tis – a pronoun interrogative meaning it asks a question. tis = who? what? which? why? – So, “who, what, which, why, how can we be separated from the love of Christ? Can affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? Make a List – can it?

v37 NO – in all things we are MORE than conquerors through him who Loved US… It’s not that I loved HIM, but that he LOVED ME…

It’s not just emotionally, but willfully, purposefully, legally, with full knowledge of me and what he is doing in me.

<–SHOUT GOES HERE–>

v38 for I am pitho – persuaded, assured, confident, convinced… neither death nor life, angels nor rulers, nor present nor future, nor powers, height, depth, not ANY other created thing… will be ABLE (dynamai = have power) to separate us from the Love of God that is IN Christ Jesus our Lord

Come On NOW…

Are you IN Christ? Then you are IN the Love of God

if you are NOT in Christ, you CAN be… as many as, to all that… That’s YOU… ANY you

Alright, Alright, I can STAND on that
In Days Like These – 1 Peter 4

May 21st, 2025
Ready, Rational, Restrained, Resounding in Love, Realistic about the End

1 Peter 4:1 – Peter writes, Since Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same understanding – “understanding” – ennoia = thought, knowledge, insight – these days are hard, but we need an understanding, an insight. Days are hard, and suffering – physical, emotional, natural, supernatural, persecution, are normal, but we must make a change in response based on our understanding.

v2 – in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will. Why? v3 we’ve already spent enough time on worldly things…

So, in days like this – what is our understanding? v7 the end of all things is near; therefore, be alert and sober-minded for prayer – v8 above all, maintain constant love for one another, since love covers a multitude of sin.

We need the understanding, in suffering, that the end is near, that this too will pass. Because the end is near, we need to focus on the right things because we only have a short time, so focus on the right things…

Be Ready, Rational, Restrained, Resounding in love, Realistic about the times… but CONSTANT?

I can’t get passed v8 saying “constant love”. He doesn’t mean, constant constant, does he? ektenese = eager constant, earnest. It’s from a word that means, “stretched”. If you aren’t being “stretched” you aren’t loving.

Understanding – vv10-11 says to use the gifts we receive to serve others.

Understanding – v12 don’t be surprised when the fiery ordeal comes… as if something unusual were happening – Woah Folks – the ordeals that are physical, are natural because of the sin cursed world we live in; those which are spiritual are because our enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy. So, don’t be surprised…

Then v13 – INSTEAD – Instead!! – there are plenty of ways we CAN respond to the challenges of life – anger, fear, frustration, disappointment, dejection, withdrawal… there are many natural ways to respond… but Instead… (rather, but, yet)

Instead – REJOICE

“Give me something about which to rejoice, Pastor”
- That you Share in the Sufferings of Christ – Philippians 3:10, Paul says, I want to know Christ… power of the Resurrection (YES) fellowship of SUFFERING… conformed to his death – Albert King’s blues song, “Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to Die” – you have to fellowship in the suffering, to know the power of the resurrection. Thank you, Jesus, for letting me walk a little part of your path. Galatians 5:24 if we belong to Christ we have crucified the flesh, it’s passions and desires. My wants have changed, and my “joy fuel” has changed.
- Rejoice with Great Joy when the glory is revealed – Some things we go through are the only or best way for his glory (reputation / weight) to be seen, revealed (apokalypsia). See, a world without Christ is also suffering, and they need to see us, in suffering, and see a “God-Response”, reveal, unveil, Jesus.
v14 if ridiculed for the name of Jesus… you are blessed because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you – WHEW

v16 if anyone suffers as a Christian, don’t be ashamed, but glorify God in having that name

v17 for the time has come for judgment to begin with God’s house

v19 those who suffer according God’s will, entrust themselves to a Faithful Creator

YES
God is For Me

May 21st, 2025

Psalm 118 – what a wonderful song of David. I know you know many songs that have been written from this Psalm. One day in Heaven, the Psalmist himself can sing it for us.

We know songs like, “Forever” and “This is the Day”, “Hosana (blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord)”, and so many others. Today I am thinking of Hezekiah Walker’s song, “God is For Me”.

Psalm 118:4 says, “let those who fear the Lord say, ‘His faithful love endures forever.” That’s a good place to start, then there comes action and understanding for us to experiences.

David knew trouble, he says in v12, “they surrounded me like bees… 13 they pushed me hard to make me fall 14 The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.” It is often only THROUGH it all, that we understand who is IN it all, and is FOR us.

Let me come back to the verse that spoke to me today: this phrase David used elsewhere because Life is Hard. v5 “I called to the Lord in distress; the Lord answered me and put me in a spacious place.” Let me tell you the “spacious place”; the spacious place is faith, truth, and love.

Here is the understanding, I often say, “not all things are good, but God IS good in all things.”

v6 – “the Lord is FOR me” – FOR = Toward

Oh people, if we call to the Lord, take our eyes off the distress, and put them on the Lord… When I look to the Lord, I find he is looking on me, toward me, over me, and what I face. Our adversary, that liar, says God doesn’t car… but The LORD IS FOR ME. and so, I will NOT be afraid… I will recognize then, what can a mere mortal do to me?. David sings this also in Psalm 56:4, 11 – a passage I love, and have written my own song along that verse. David is quoted in Hebrews 13:6 and recalled in Romans 8:31.

When I’m looking at my trouble, my adversary, they might seem large, formidable, but when I look to the Lord, I put them in perspecive, and even if they seem bigger than me, God is Bigger, God is For / toward me.

So, I will not BE afraid. In that understanding, David sings, in Psalm 56:4, “in God, whose word I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?”

I love the comparative options in Psalm 56:3,4 – WHEN I am afraid, I will trust… 4… in God I trust, I will NOT BE afraid. If fear sunk in, trust God, and in that spacious place, fear, like darkness, is pushed out by light, and if I will trust, sit in that spacious place, then fear’s darkness can’t get in.

In Distress, say, “God is For me” keep singing that – Look to Him – Call to Him – Trust Him – He is God – He is in Control – Victory is Coming.

What is the “worst” a human can do? Take your life? Well, only if God allows, and then Sudden Death = Sudden Glory –

God is FOR me.
Just a Loaf of Barley Bread

April 30th, 2025

In Judges 7, Gideon is being used by God to free the people of Israel from Midianite oppressors. God had cut down his force from 32,000 to 10,000 to 300, but God is getting ready to do something amazing.

v7 – The Lord said to Gideon, ‘I will deliver you with three hundred men…’

v9 – The Lord said, ‘Get up and attack the camp, for I have handed it over to you.’

I love that God knows us, and when he has already made provision he still gives instruction. He told him to go, but knew what Gideon was feeling, so without a pause immediately says,

v10 – But if you are afraid to attack the camp, go down…(to the camp) 11 Listen to what they say, and you will be encouraged to attack the camp

Encouragement to Go and DO as God says, is my whole point today.

So, Gideon goes down, not to attack, but to Listen… You have to see the picture. It’s night, and an army is like a swarm of locusts and their camels innumerable as the sand

He goes down the edge of camp with his servant and v13 says, there was a man telling his friend about a dream… ‘I had a dream: a LOAF OF BARLEY BREAD came tumbling into the Midianite camp, struck a tent and it fell. The LOAF turned the tent upside down so it collapsed.‘ v14 His friend says, ‘this is… the sword of Gideon, son of Joash… God has handed the entire camp to him.’

We need to know that God can do ANYTHING, use ANYONE, if we will go and do as he says.

I chased this rabbit a little and Josephus is credited as saying that a loaf of barley bread, “men can hardly eat for its coarseness. Barley was “the poor man’s food and less desirable.”

Now, the Midianites had been watching all year as they planted and raised good wheat, and then would come in with their mass of men, and steal all they had like locusts. So Israel was left only with what the locusts wouldn’t eat or couldn’t carry off. They were left with the hard grain barely, poor people’s food. Josephus even says that Israelites were negatively referred to as “barley eaters”.

Yet a Barley Loaf, was dreamt rolling into the camp and wiping them all out.

My mind then jumped to John 6 when a massive crowd of thousands is following Jesus, and they were hungry. Jesus asks the question of his disciples, v5 “where will we BUY bread so that these people can eat?”. We are immediately told in v6 that he was testing them with this question.

Philip said, two hundred denarii worth of bread wouldn’t be enough for each to have a little. That’s eight months wages… not enough.

Now you put that with Gideon’s 300 men against a swarm of attackers, and they are just like a poor man’s loaf of barley bread – yet they take down the enemies.

So, Jesus, 1150 years later on the shores of Galilee, wanting to feed thousands in John 6, and good old Andrew, such a practical, “let’s see what we can do” guy, in v9 says ‘there’s a boy here who has Five Barley Loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?’

Lord, we have Five Barley Loaves…

Then if you have a “red-letter” bible, Jesus is recorded as saying two things, ‘have the people sit down’… ‘collect the leftovers so that nothing is wasted.’

In between those two sentences, he took the Barley Loaves and little bait fish, blessed them, and distributed them – as much as they wanted… when they were full

Wow – as an old gospel song used to say, “Little is Much when God is In It”

The simplest, poorest thing we have is powerful when God has it in HIS hands and we give it freely and use as he instructs.

Then I must connect the next day – they all came again looking for Jesus and he says, ‘you come because you ate the loaves… but don’t work for food that perishes but for food that lasts for eternal life.

They were filled with poor boys food, touched by Jesus, but now v35 I am the bread of life… comes to men never hungry

He goes on a long explanation, I am the living bread… the one who eats lives forever… and yet that day many turned back and never followed him again. God in Christ IS the Bread We Seek.

We may not think we are much, and we are right. We may be Barley Loaves, but God does Transformative things with “poor man’s bread” if we will believe and come
The Ministry of the Glory

April 22nd, 2025

2 Corinthians 3:7-18 – give it a read first

v18 is where I started in the passage and it is a fantastic “glory climax”, but there is so much wonder in this chapter that sometimes we miss that Paul says, “we… are looking as in a mirror, at the glory of the Lord…”

All of us have sinned and come short of the glory, but when we received Jesus by faith we entered into his glory – Romans 3:24 says we were justified fully by his grace. We received it freely, fully, in justification, while we aren’t experiencing it fully, we ARE being sanctified day by day.

The false god of this age, 2 Corinthians 4:4 blinds us. Yet, Jesus came to give us Life and Light.

Back in 2 Corinthians 3:16, whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. That’s right, whenever and whomever… when we TURN.

The veil gone, we can see, like in a mirror. In Paul’s day the mirror was often metal or bronze, darkly, 1 Corinthians 13:12 says only a reflection… But still, when we look at our face in a mirror – what should we be seeing? Our actions, attitudes, acknowledgements, acceptances, aspirations, changing. Every day we should see the glory of God growing in us; shining more fully like the sun’s glow on the dark predawn horizon, then more light, then a glimmer, then a half sun, and rising from dawn into the sky, through morning until the glory of mid-day.

Are you seeing the image of Christ developing in your life, from glory TO glory? Do you see it? Does it surprise you? Do you see yourself responding in life’s challenges differently today than last year, ten years ago, or maybe a day ago? Paul closes by saying this is from the Lord.

Earlier in this passage he says that just as the beauty of the Old Testament is missing the understanding without the New Revelation; so we are blessed with the Full Revelation, the Incarnation of Jesus. Then the Manifestation is he comes to live in us by his Spirit. Praise God for the Culmination that is yet to come. Yet, along the way, a Transformation is taking place.

Paul, speaking of the Old Covenant says it had been glorious (but) is not glorious now by comparison because of that glory that surpasses it.

So, day by day, looking in the mirror, you should see the glory of Jesus Christ growing as you are being transformed into the Same Image from glory to glory

Oh Yes

I could go on… but just as my hair was all over the place when I looked into the mirror this morning, and my face didn’t reflect the image I wanted, I had work to do… So it is with my Spiritual Journey.

I look into God’s Word, into my heart, to my thoughts and actions, and I must surrender to truth, to the power of the Spirit, and BE as I am BEING transformed.

2 Corinthians 3:4-5 says Such is the confidence we have through Christ before God. It is not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God – I love the way the CSB uses that word “adequacy”. I don’t have anything, but God works in me to make what I have adequate to do what he is doing to transform me.

Oh the Glory – old and new, day to day. If you don’t know Fred Hammond, go search him and “Glory to Glory” – that’s the song ringing in my heart right now.

Go read ALL of 2 Corinthians 3. Meditate and ask God what he is saying to you. Read it again, and then a third time at least read vv16-18. Then do what I often say we should do every day – P.R.A.Y. – Pray, Read, Apply, and say, “Yes”

Look in the Mirror and watch the Glory Grow
Do What God is NOT Hiding – Genesis 18

March 26th, 2025
Has God ever revealed something he wanted to do and you thought, “that’s crazy, never gonna happen, I can’t do it?”

Have you ever felt like God was doing something but he wasn’t revealing it to you?

Well, let’s think outside the box for a minute, but focus on what’s IN the box too.

Abraham had moved to Mamre in Genesis 13 and built an altar to the Lord there. I could stop right there… build a house where the thing known and remembered is that you Worship God There… Yes

But let me move on… Remember God had a promise that he would turn this childless man, too old for children, into a Father of a Nation that would bless History, All Peoples.
Now you flash forward to Genesis 18 and the Lord appears to him, and promises it is time for fulfillment, giving Sarah a son. Now 25 years has passed since the first promise, and Abraham is way too old now.

His wife Sarah overheard the conversation and laughed. And God knows what she has done, and the Lord says, “is anything impossible for God” v14

The Lord is on his way down to Sodom and Gomorrah because of their wickedness and about to impart Just Judgement on them. The Lord wonders with his fellow travelers, “should I hide this thing … from Abraham” v17

This passage has always struck me as where I wanted to be. I want to be so aware and sensitive to the Lord’s movement, that if he is going to do something around me and me not know, he’d have to hide it.

The Lord does reveal his plan to Abraham, and laudably, Abraham intercedes for the wicked town. His nephew Lot and family live there. That concern is profound and worth noting, but the bigger thing for me is the relationship with the Lord that was so close. I have been struck by v17 most of my life, desiring to be such a friend of God that I would know when he is moving.

I may sometimes not know why but want to be aware that he is moving and able to engage with the Lord.

So, here’s where I take a sideways thought today. vv16-19 is a Spiritual Conversation between the Lord and the Heavenly Representatives regarding Justice and God’s Purpose for Abraham.

Abraham is chosen, and his offspring could be affected by the sin in the region, so God, who has been patient, must act. We don’t always know what God is doing, but we can be sure it is always Just and always for bigger purposes. He sees the possible ends and is moving toward the desired end.

Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him. 19 For I have chosen him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just. This is how the LORD will fulfill to Abraham what he promised him.” – Gen18:18-19 (CSB)

Here is my point today… Does God always reveal everything he is doing and why? NO

Is God always Just and Right? YES

Sometimes we might think God is hiding or is not on the right path…
1. He is always on the right path
2. If he is hiding / silent – DO the Last thing he told you to do. Act on the Revelation you have.
3. It’s ok to ask, to intercede, but don’t get stuck there
God just revealed to them that the promise of a child is finally coming… ACT ON THAT.

“Well that’s crazy! I’m not fit for that task, Lord.”

Well, get ready, get fit. Seek God’s provision for the task, not a task you are fit for. Act on the revelation rather than seeking a different revelation.

Abraham was a great man, but a troubled man. So much of his troubles, lying, deception, would have been more easily dealt with if he trusted the revelation he had.

12:3 I will bless those who bless you… curse those who curse you… all the people of the earth will be blessed through you”

15:1 do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield, your reward will be great

15:5 Look at the sky and count the stars… your offspring will be that numerous. Abram believed and he credited it to him as righteousness

Now in chapter 18 Abraham is struggling to believe because life has made it hard to believe, then we get to chapter 20, and he is fearful again and lied to Abimelech and had to correct the wrongs.

My thought to finish then is if we would spend more time focused on and working on what we DO know, have faith in the revelation we have received, we can then operate without fear of the things we do not know.

There you go, I set that down quickly… Selah – think on these things.
Caught Up

March 18th, 2025

I wrote this a few years ago, maybe check out my current series in The Revelation of Jesus Christ on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/live/5rsaKFUkviA?si=DMU4ZlDQQ8YWempM

Caught Up

He is not a “thief”,

Who steals away what he already owns;

He is but an owner,

A warrior to rescue,

taking his goods back home;

And so, comes Christ,

One day like a thief,

when we do not know;

To Restore his blood-bought saints,

Who are not forgotten or alone;

He will take us to a place,

Meticulously prepared;

So that forever

and a day,

We may dwell with him there

So be ready this day, this moment,

To hear the blest Trumpet Sound;

Then as we look up, then look down

Caught Up in Him…

We are Found!

James Goforth 2019
Home or Away… Pleasing

March 18th, 2025
Are you ever displeased with your home / station / circumstances? It’s easy to be affected or effected by a desire for pleasure in our palace.

2 Corinthians 5 begins, “we know if our earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling, not made by hands, in the heavens“

When I grew up, my father was the pastor of many churches. His ministry meant that I lived in eight places in four states before I was 18 years old. I have been in seven places in the last 42 years, but that has included two states and a foreign country. That’s perhaps much more than most.

We have said, “home is where the Lord says.”

Certainly, when we think about earth and eternity, if we believe what we do, heaven is the place to be. But Look at the comparisons Paul uses:
- Earthly Tent
  - we “live” in – exist, do life
  - we know it will end – be destroyed
  - we make our way
  - we groan
  - we are desiring the heavenly
- Building From God
  - a fixed structure
  - not made with human hands
  - an eternal (aionios = age long) dwelling (oikia = home/house)
The Honest Truth is that sometimes we over focus on either of those. Sometimes we hold too tightly to earth or focus too much on our desire for eternity.

Notice the reminder and clarifier in v5 – We have been given the Holy Spirit, as a down payment. So, what we feel/experience of The Spirit in our lives is but a “foretaste of the divine”.

Because of sin, our destiny was destroyed. Death became our destination. But IN Christ, we are prepared for a new purpose, an eternal purpose. So, v6, we have confidence – always, know (oida)=appreciate / aware that when we are at home – endemeo = to BE at home. That word is though not a passive reality, but is in present active tense. We may not BE home, but we must actively BE AT home. We aren’t in our eternal dwelling, but we choose to be at home away from home.

v7 FOR / because – we need to live “because” or “for” lives… What is the “because”? We walk by faith, not by sight.

We have faith, fed by the Holy Spirit within us, knowing that the fullness of the promise is coming. This world is not my home, but I’m going to be at home, wherever God has placed me for the purpose he gives me.

I have faith in the future, but I live BY faith, FOR faith, IN faith, to the things I am here for.

Certainly, v8, we would prefer to be away from this broken, imperfect body. It’s just a tent, I can camp, but I don’t want to live there. We want to go home to be with the Lord. But “home” is where God says, so today, this moment, every moment…

v9…we make it our aim…

…wait, back up, whether home or away, present or absent…

we make it our aim – fun word there – philotimeomai = have as one’s ambition – My ambition is not to have heaven today… in Christ having heaven will take care of itself… that’s NOT my ambition today. My ambition, in every circumstance, every season, every location is to be pleasing to him
- Know what pleases him
- Know my purpose here
- Know what’s important today
Home or Away – Pleasing – driven by a desire for the Lord’s Approval… that’s the only thing I can control.
Caterpillars Don’t Become Butterflies!

March 11th, 2025

Thought for the Week Did you know that caterpillars are not “transformed” into butterflies? In metamorphosis (the name of the process), a caterpillar…
Caterpillars Don’t Become Butterflies!