Gathered Around the Fire

Somewhere In Time...(Download mp3 Audio) This morning I want to talk about the timelessness of Prayer. Can we cross over a threshold in prayer and reach into a Heavenly reality? Can we cross over to a place where time ceases to exist? There is a threshold in our minds, that divides time from eternity. Can we cross in prayer to a place that transcends time? Can we cross over from world consciousness into Heavenly Consciousness? Did you know that as a culture, we are very interested in transcending time to touch timelessness? In the last several years at least 556 movies have been made with time travel as the central plot. Hollywood has experimented with every aspect of traveling to a different time. Including how one can change history by going back in time and changing what was done in the past. Well prayer also changes things , prayer for forgiveness and for deliverance remove the power of things done in the past and can change the future. In the movie “Somewhe...

Download QuickTime Player Song Of Ascents...(Download mp3 Audio) Hallelujah! How many of you know it is a little bit of a rush, to get here on Sunday morning? It is like you get up and you have so much to do. How many things do you think of, other than thinking about coming into the presence of God on a Sunday Morning? Quite a few! If you remember it was about two weeks ago when we talked last time and I read an article about Jesus chasing us through our busy schedules. I don’t know how much you remember of that but, T his morning I want turn the tables and I want to talk about how we can chase God. There is a Scripture that says, That Jesus was following the Israelites through the wilderness. Because they weren't following Him, God ended up following them. We don’t want God following us, because His ways are higher than our ways and his thoughts above our thoughts. And how many of you want the God of the universe following you like you are the deal. It doesn't...

In God’s perfect world, it was not an office, not a factory, not a sports arena, but a garden where God placed man , his most cherished creation. God’s ideal setting for a pursuing a love relationship with man, was a garden. He created man naked and unashamed. Intimacy comes, when we know we are loved, just as we are, there is no shame, no need to perform, no need to hide, (no fig leaves required). In the cool of the day God would come down to be with Adam, where Adam was, the garden, and walk with him. God comes again, one day but this day Adam and Eve have sinned and they are hiding. God said, “Adam where are you?” Since that day of separation, when man was removed from the garden, man now says, "God, where are you?” In our post modern, post industrial, information age, we have trouble seeing God as the Divine suitor in a sacred romance. Ohh! We can see him as a boss, a judge, an absentee landlord, a policeman, some can see Him as a teacher, a doctor, maybe othe...