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  Meditation on John 14:15-26 May 21, 2017 Merritt Island Presbyterian Church 15 ‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. 17This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him.Continue reading “He Lives in You!”

  Meditation on 1 Peter 2:2-10 May 14, 2017 Merritt Island Presbyterian Church    Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation— 3if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. 4 Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and preciousContinue reading “You are Living Stones!”

Meditation on John 10:1-10 May 7, 2017 Merritt Island Presbyterian Church    Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. 2The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.  3The gatekeeper opens theContinue reading ““You Are His Sheep””

  Meditation on Luke 24: 13-35 April 30, 2017 Merritt Island Presbyterian Church   13 Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles* from Jerusalem, 14and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. 15While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and wentContinue reading “The Stranger in Jerusalem”

Meditation on Col. 3:1-4 and John 20:1-18 Easter Sunday 2017 Merritt Island Presbyterian Church      So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you haveContinue reading “Easter People”

Meditation on Matthew 21:1-11 (April 9) “Palm Sunday” 2017      When they had come near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2saying to them, ‘Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bringContinue reading “Humble King”

Meditation on John 11 (selected verses) April 2, 2017 Merritt Island Presbyterian Church       Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.   2Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. 3So theContinue reading “The God Who Listens, Loves and Heals”

Meditation on John 9 (Selected verses) March 26, 2017 Merritt Island Presbyterian Church 9As Jesus walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ 3Jesus answered, ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’sContinue reading ““Now I See””

  Meditation on Exodus 17:1-7 March 19, 2017 Merritt Island Presbyterian Church        From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2The people quarrelled with Moses, and said, ‘Give us water to drink.’Continue reading “Is the Lord Among Us?”

Meditation on John 3:1–17 (18-21) March 12, 2017 Merritt Island Presbyterian Church    Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2 He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that youContinue reading “Seeking Christ in the Dark”