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May 21, 2026: Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 55 Blessings and Peace for you this morning, and every day. At 5:30AM today, I was out in the refreshing quiet and comfort of 63 degrees. God's creation is beautiful! I can't quite say the same thing for the morning at 9AM when the heat was coming up and the drivers were getting much more aggressive. Even in our lives, someone who we have trusted, perhaps a friend, or a casual acquaintance, or a family member, or a co-worker with w

May 14, 2026: Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 54 Blessing and Peace be with you on this warm desert morning. I must admit that it was beautiful at 5AM this morning as I drove Jesse to his work at Handicar. With windows down it was about 75 degrees. I hope that your week is going well, and that your NBA playoff team is still in the running. This week we are studying the 54th Psalm. It holds for us some important messages. Perhaps the most important message is to let God be the

April 30, 2026: Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 53 Good morning on this beautiful day. Some of you may have had rain last night, but we live near Kolb and Golf Links, and we only had drops of mud on our cars. I was really encouraged by the clouds and the wind, especially around about 7PM. Please pray for Bubbles who is recovering from teeth removal and jaw surgery in Mexico yesterday. She recovered from distemper, but it created many bone structure issues in her face. Please a

April 16, 2026: Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 52 Blessings and Peace in the Name, and by the Power, of our Risen Savior. I hope that we can all pray for peace to be established between Lebanon and Israel, and between the Ukraine and Russia, and between our country and Iran. I know that it seems like a lot to ask of God, but with God all things are possible, and since we pray and live with the Holy Spirit in, with, and around us, we must know that we are guided by Christ's Gr

March 26, 2026: Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 51 Dear friends in Christ, I am writing tomorrow's Psalm Study a day early. As I approach this weekend there are many obligations for Church, prep for music and rehearsals for Gospel Music on Palm Sunday, a conference meeting for the Kino conference (all our parishes in this part of the state), and a meeting with David Pavesic and Bishop Hutterer on Saturday afternoon to speak with them about American and the difficult time we ar

March 12, 2026: Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 50 May our Lord's Grace and Peace be with you this morning. Our lives are always filled with more than enough to do. As we age, less to do often seems like it is more to do and takes longer to get it done. That is especially true in our home because we have six "adults" who are still taking on learning to do their own laundry, cooking some meals, tidying up their rooms, and helping with other regular duties of having a home to li

February 19, 2026: Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 48 Good morning, dear friends in Christ. I know that some of you who are doing these Bible Studies during the week are in much colder places than Tucson. However, today our high temperature is only going to be in the 50s. Up north that is spring weather, but here in Tucson it is cold (by our standards) and damp from light rain this morning. It is OK though, because next week, all week long we will be in the lower 80s during th

February 12, 2026: Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 47 For all of us who are blessed by God's Love for us and all people in His creation, we will be together on Ash Wednesday this coming week as we begin the season of Lent in the Trinitarian congregations of Christ's Church. We will have services at Noon and 7PM next Wednesday which will include imposition of ashes and Holy Communion. This is a very special opportunity for us to find focus in our faith lives as we enter into th

February 5, 2026: Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 46 Dear friends in Christ. Your study is a little late coming today. Please keep Sharyn and her family in your prayers for the death of her sister Sonya early this morning in Phoenix. Sonya has been in hospice care now for a number of months. Pray for the LORD'S comfort and Peace to be with Sonya's family as the sure and certain hope of the Resurrection surrounds them in their grief and loss. Pray too please for Lisa as she rec

January 29, 2026: Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 45 Blessings and Peace be yours today and always. I am not certain if you have noticed the uptick in Tucson traffic, however, no matter where you drive you are going to encounter heavy traffic. I implore you to drive carefully when you are out because there are a few additional crazy people out there. In the last two days on the early morning drive, I have had 6 cars drive by me in excess of 80 miles an hour in a 45-speed zone.

January 21, 2026: Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 44 Blessings and Peace be with you on this cloudy cool morning in Tucson, and if you are some place more sunny and warmer, give thanks to God for your good fortune. Please remember to keep the people in the south of our nation in your prayers as they prepare to have a massive bitter cold, ice and snowstorm race through their states and communities. I know that we have suffered with a drought for about 15 years here in the deser

January 15, 2026: Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 43 Blessing and Peace in Jesus Christ be with you today. This morning, I was able to practice at church without the need for a jacket in our unheated sanctuary. It was lovely there, and it always gives me an opportunity to appreciate our chancel area (the space which holds our altar, the Moravian Star, the Lectern, the organ, and the bell choir tables and bells). It is really a wonderful place to work on music and more. I will

January 8, 2026: Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 42 Good evening/morning, depending on when you choose to look at your emails and the Psalm study which normally comes to you late on Thursday morning. I pray for the LORD'S richest blessings to sustain you and to keep you fully faithful even in what may be difficult times. I know that the cold rain today is important to the health of our desert and its environment in which we live. But I must tell you as I sit in our 68-degree h

December 18, 2025: Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 41:13 For my dear friends in Christ as we approach the end of the season of Advent at the beginning of the Church Year and move quickly on to Christmas and its 12 days of celebration that you know all about God's love for you. I know that all too often, commercial TV and Radio act as if Christmas ends at midnight on December 25. You will find it hard, even in some churches, to sing carols any longer than Christmas Eve, or Ch

December 11, 2025: Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 41:1-12 Good evening (it’s about 10pm on the 10th), and good morning if you are not seeing this until the 11th of December. Thursday morning, I have a great deal of practice to get my feel for the organ together tomorrow in the sanctuary. I am hopeful that I will be able to play more than just the three opening carols on the organ. I am really looking forward to the Christmas Eve worship. I get to be together with our church m

December 4, 2025: Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 39 May the blessing of this sunny December day fill you with joy in the coming Light of God for all people, His only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. A truly short reminder - Gospel Music Sunday this Sunday, Dec. 7. Chili luncheon to follow. Please join us for wonderful worship, the proclamation of the Word of the Lord, good music, and the living presence of Christ in the celebration of Holy Communion, all follo

November 20, 2025: Thursday Bible Study on Old Testament of Psalm 38 Blessings, Peace, and staying warm on this November rainy morning my dear friends. In your prayers, please hold up Vincente who was in a bad car accident as a passenger. He has had several head surgeries since and has more to go at Banner UMC. Pray too for Caesar who suffered first time seizures at work this week, who is hospitalized in an induced coma. Also, pray for Lisa whose tests for cancer can now be

November 6, 2025: Thursday Bible Study on Old Testament of Psalm 37:1-20 May the heart of Christ's love for you sustain you and keep you throughout this day, and always! Good morning my dear friends. I hope that you will continue to offer prayers as I bring to you the prayers that the prayer chain has been praying for during the week. This week we have had two. One is for a member's grandchild, Lucio, who is being treated for pneumonia. Please pray for his comfort and that t

October 30, 2025: Friday Bible Study on Old Testament of Psalm 36 May the joy of this cool desert morning fill your heart with wonder at the glory of God's creation. Good morning my dear friends. Well, for all the children, tomorrow is a big day, parties at school, trunk or treating, costumes, family get-togethers, and CANDY! With all that we make of Halloween, it has become more difficult for us to truly acknowledge the very next day in the life of the Church, and Her Saint

October 23, 2025: Thursday Bible Study on Old Testament of Psalm 35 Good morning my dear friends in Christ. Today we will continue our study of Psalms. Please continue to pray for Teri who is home following her hip surgery and several weeks in therapy care. Pray for Becky who is recovering with an unknown cause for extreme weakness. Pray for Larry who had throat cancer treatment yesterday. Pray for a different Larry who is at home recovering from back surgery complications.