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“ unchangeable Truths ” -  Rev. Terry J. McGuireunchangeable Truths, it is never the truth that changes only our understanding of it… we are promised that God will place it on our hearts and minds as to what will apply to our lives, “I will show you” so who do we allow to show us, who are we willing to risk our lives with? Who is the “I” in our lives… no amount of proof, can convince anyone of the truth… it either resonates with you – or it does not… Gods’ words never changes only our...Read Full Story

as well intentioned as we mean for our words or actions to be, are they stumbling blocks for others? Who or what do we let stumble us? Now I don’t have to tell you… you already know this – especially at our age… I hope so anyway… that unless you fall you really won’t know how to get up… let alone if you stumble – how to find balance, even in the struggle to not be embarrassed by stumbling or even falling… Know that God is always there to catch us… even when we have forgotten – who we can turn...Read Full Story

“ R E S T O R E D ” – from exile to greatnessRev. Terry J. McGuirehave you ever felt like you were in exile? I have, and I think if we truly reflect on our lives, we too would find that we have been, at one point or another through out our life time… In our exile what have we learned? ‘there is always restoration that we too share in the Divine – the hope of our humanity to be restored in relationship with God and one another.’ We find it is only in our own suffering that change is possible...Read Full Story

A Foundation of Faith: Here is something that came to me when preparing for this weeks Spiritual Reflections, on a Foundation & Faith: “Faith is Believing so much so that your willing to bet your very life on it”... throughout the Scriptures Christ had a lot to say about and on Faith, and the Foundations He would be giving us as examples... a strong Foundation is built upon a Rock – for me and I pray for you – that Christ is that Rock. There is nothing – hear me well – there is nothing we can...Read Full Story

“have we done – what we ought?”Rev. Terry J. McGuireright from the start, in the old testament reading, “justice never prevails” and “justice comes forth perverted” and even so still today - when the so called religious right gets it so wrong, that we hear of teens jumping to their deaths because someone has outed them... really... we live in the land of the free, don't we... then why do we still have such discrimination’s against others different from ourselves... I think it is time we stand...Read Full Story