Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Rolling Stone

I am sitting in the waiting room as my wife recovers from an ERCP procedure.  She is doing fine and we are about to get out of the hospital and go home.  We had to come and do this procedure because last week they took out her gall bladder because of a 1.5 centimeter stone.  The surgeon came out after that surgery and said that everything went well, but she had additional stones in another area.  That's how we came to be where we are today.  After this procedure, the doctor came out and said the surgery went great and that she was "stone free."  She had been experiencing some fever, stomach ache, and some other discomfort and all that led to us visiting the doctor, and then the tests, and then the surgery.  This whole process makes you appreciate our medical system and we praise God for all the doctors and nurses who worked on her.  She is on track for a good recovery and ready to get back to her normal lifestyle.
I was thinking about how all this parallels with our spiritual condition.  We have a sin problem in a certain area and when we consult Dr. Jesus, He says to get rid of that problem and fixes it all with His surgery.  His Word gives us instruction and helps us ascertain that these symptoms are troublesome for our overall spiritual health.  We get to the point where we know we need help and there needs to be some spiritual surgery to get rid of the sin.  We have to decide if we will put ourselves in the hands of Him or not.  If we choose to ignore this surgery, the result will be more and more spiritual health problems in the future and we will lose the health we are so used to.  If we choose to follow His instructions and allow Him to operate then we are on the way to spiritual health again and because of His Grace we will get back our spiritual vitality again.  Sometimes during this process God will try to move us to a higher way of thinking and some of the spiritual stones we left unturned become troublesome.  We thought we could hide them and they wouldn't be noticed, but we see those spiritual stones have rolled down where we realize we have more things to deal with than we are admitting.  It's time to come clean totally. What happens when we deal with those issues?  You realize a release from something that has been a big hindrance in your spiritual walk and you finally get beyond some things that have been troublesome for years.  Only God could care enough to do a separate procedure just for you to get in even better health. Why?  Because He cares yesterday, today, and forever.  Sometimes it may take a few days to recover from this new lease on life, but during the recovery you see just how awesome God is and how much He cares.
The next time God deals with you about a certain area in your life, let Him do the surgery to make it right.  Be prepared though.  He will probably take that situation and use it to help you in another area of your life. He will help you track down that "Rolling Stone" and get it out as well.  Sadly enough, many Christians never admit they have a problem and their spiritual stones never get removed.  Feeling feverish?  Feeling pressed on every side?  Feel like your stomach is in a vise?  Turn yourself over to Dr. Jesus and let him remove those things that keep you from living a FREE life that is trusting in Him. 
2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;9persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body.12So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
His life is at work in each of us.  Let Him continue to do a great work that brings out the best in each of us....Him.  Let Him keep Rolling the Stones out of your life.


The Pilgrimage continues....
David Warren

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Why Live for Christ? Because It’s Worth It!


Matthew 5: 1-16 What is our worth?  Worth definition - usefulness or importance, as to the world, to a person, or for a purpose. Value…. I mattered to God and You do too. Everyone has a purpose when it comes to living our lives and we are not meant to just bump through life from one thing to the other.  God has a great plan for each of us and we are totally capable of following that plan.  All your plans and all your dreams are important to God and right now He is listening intently to your heart to see what choice you will make when faced with this Word of Truth.  I know this.  Dusty knows this.  Your youth leaders and parents know this. The question is…Do You know this?
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.   Malcolm S. Forbes              How can you know you matter and have worth or value to God?  He gave His son for you to have eternal life with Him.  John 3:16 He empowers us with His Spirit to do even more than Jesus did when He walked on this earth.  John 14:11-14He doesn’t ever desert you in the middle of trials and temptations.  He can make great things come out of bad things and His plan is to always grow us in our faith.  James 1:2-4  We have worth!!!
An American tourist in Paris, who purchased an inexpensive amber necklace in a trinket shop, was shocked when he had to pay quite a high duty on it to clear customs in New York. This aroused his curiosity, so he had it appraised. After looking at the object under a magnifying glass, the jeweler said, "I'll give you $25,000 for it." Greatly surprised, the man decided to have another expert examine it. When he did, he was offered $10,000 more. "What do you see that's so valuable about this old necklace?" asked the astonished man. "Look through this glass," replied the jeweler. There before his eyes was an inscription: "From Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine." The value of the necklace came from its identification with a famous person.

We each have great worth because of who we are connected to.  God is our worth giver and He has invested a great amount of love and sacrifice to make sure each of us succeeds in realizing that living for Him is Worth It!!  Since we know we have worth or value to God, we must realize that every time we don’t follow God or turn our back on His purposes in our life, we are not only affecting God’s plan, but our lives, and the lives of those we could impact…..So we must conclude that we are Hand in Hand with Jesus in this serving thing..Does this sound familiar?  Scripture says, “Take Up your Cross and Follow Me”  in Matthew 16: 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. Where is the disconnect?

1.     No challenge  2.     No backbone   3.     No time   4.     No priority  5.     No encouragement             6.     No reward   7.     No results
The worth or value is there, but will never be realized if we don’t commit to Renewal.  Come back to God.  Make Him the number one priority in every area of your life and beginning today…today….you will never be the same.  Paul wrote to the Galatians after they had drifted away from God’s purpose because of poor teaching.  Galatians 3:1 You crazy Galatians! Did someone put a hex on you? Have you taken leave of your senses? Something crazy has happened, for it's obvious that you no longer have the crucified Jesus in clear focus in your lives. His sacrifice on the cross was certainly set before you clearly enough.
Today is the day to allow God to become real to you and follow His way.  Why?  Because it is worth it.  ……If one of you is changed, then it is worth it.…… If you get to lead just one friend to Christ, it is worth it.…….If you get to the end of your school years and see that you have made an impact for Christ on your campus, it is worth it.…….If you are catalyst to your youth ministry becoming a growing ministry whose fellowship and unity is so beyond anything anyone has ever seen….It is worth it.
Charles Leber, a Presbyterian missionary, was in Westphalia, Germany at a clinic for handicapped children. A wealthy businessman came to tour the facilities and said to the doctor, "These are very pathetic children. What ratio of cures do you get? How many go back to normal life?" 
"About 1 in 100." 
"1 in 100! It's not worth it." 
"Yes it is. If that one was your child it would be worth it."
1 Timothy 4:6 (The Message) 6-10 You've been raised on the Message of the faith and have followed sound teaching. Now pass on this counsel to the followers of Jesus there, and you'll be a good servant of Jesus. Stay clear of silly stories that get dressed up as religion. Exercise daily in God—no spiritual flabbiness, please! Workouts in the gymnasium are useful, but a disciplined life in God is far more so, making you fit both today and forever. You can count on this. Take it to heart. This is why we've thrown ourselves into this venture so totally. We're banking on the living God.
I'm banking on God to make my life worth it when He says,"Well done my good and faithful servant."  Why live for Christ?  Because it's worth it!!

The Pilgrimage Continues.......
David Warren

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Synergetic Service-Get On His Bandwagon

I always get very discouraged when someone shares their heart about something that is a problem, but they never give any solutions.  It's like they dumped on me and really challenged me, and then......nothing.  God opens our eyes to the things going on around us and when we seek and knock He will open some doors to a greater understanding of how to "fix" things with His wisdom.  His wisdom is not short term, it is eternal.  That's why we must get back to the place of asking Him for His wisdom and His direction.  Today I want to try to give a glimpse of what happens when we get on His "bandwagon."
God has equipped each of us in very unique ways to follow His plan in reaching our world.  In that plan He has some basic or foundational things that must be added to our daily life to get on a synergetic path to a whole new level of serving. Here is a good definition of the synergy I am talking about.
The interaction of two or more agents or forces so that their combined effect is 
greater than the sum of their individual effects. 
God has made us able to work with Him and each other in accomplishing His purpose for us and for His church.  If we stop at US,  then we are not allowing His wisdom to be complete.  He takes the unique qualities of His people and fits them together as a catalyst to cause a spark that ignites His church to function in a very forward moving and forward thinking way.  This is what I call Synergetic Service.  Here is a cool verse that makes helps come into focus.
1 Corinthians 12:14 Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. 15If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 16And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 17If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
When all the pieces are in place a great "happening" takes place in your life and in the body.  Everyone suddenly realizes where they are in this great plan and they have a desire to follow that plan wherever it goes.  I believe the plan or vision doesn't come from a small group of paid staff members.  I don't even believe this plan comes from a group of elders or deacons.  I believe this plan comes from the church.  Yes, the church.  The leaders will be a significant "guiding" force in the discovery of the plan and the implementation of the plan, but they won't devise the plan on their own.  What happens if one of them leaves?  The plan goes with them and the next guy will have his own plan, which has a good chance of  stopping the synergy if His life purpose is different.  No, everyone bows to plan, which in this case, is actually bowing to God and His Word.  Doesn't that sound familiar?  You probably read about this overall encompassing act of giving God glory, reverence, praise, and honor in the Bible.  You probably sang some worship songs last week in church that talked about it also.  You probably had to bow before God in your prayer time at some point and just honor Him.  Giving Him all this trust is not something we just sing about or talk about.  We put it into practice through this Synergetic Service.
If we are going to follow His commands and as individuals be "the church."  If we are going to invest our lives and our times into helping the church be "the church."  Then the segmented attitudes and selfish desires of our hearts are going to have to bend to conform to His overall plan.  Any other way of living or serving will not work!!!   We have seen evidence of trying to fix it and continue to devise new plans that are short termed at best to "make it better."  It won't work!
What works is each of us digging into the individual purpose God has for our lives and combining that with a servant heart that wants to join hands with other believers in following God. When we join hands in that way we no longer have an agenda. Our agenda is God's agenda.  How do we start this synergy?
Pray for a servant's heart. A heart that is all about God and others.
Lifestyle that is Bible focused and world impacting.  More God, less World.
Humility replaces selfishness.  We bow to the overall purpose and God is in charge.
Belief in the fact that we can do more together than apart.
Living for the long haul.  This isn't a fad or a trend.  It is WHO I AM!
You say, "I'm not in a church that is planning or ministering in this way."  Go to your leadership and say, "I want to be a part of something great and it starts today." If they look at you funny and don't give you some ways to serve out your burden, then you may need to search for a church that is following The Great Commission and not the great omission, because you may be wasting time.
If we are the body, why aren't his arms reaching?  This is more than a Casting Crowns song.  This is where the "rubber meets the road."  It will never begin if you don't start driving.  Synergetic Service is each of us coming alive and the Body fitting it all together to be "The Church."

The pilgrimage continues....
David Warren

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Fly By Night Faith


Have you ever heard the phrase "Fly By Night?"  The phrase itself means something of a shaky or impermanent nature. A fly-by-nighter is an unscrupulous or undependable person.  The phrase denotes a person who is unreliable and not a good finisher.  This in some ways is the type of faith we have been teaching over the past years in many "modern day" churches.  It feels good because it takes little or no sacrifice or commitment and you can take it or leave it.  In our desire to make serving Christ as easy as possible we have polluted the purity found in a passionate heart that loves Chirst.  We have asked for no buy in and thus the amount of Christians who are available to serve Christ through the church has diminished over the years.  In most churches 100% of the serving is done by 20% of the people and those people are overworked and many times burned out.  What should be something that is very enjoyable and encouraging becomes something very taxing and draining.  So....we've got a major problem because of the lack of leadership getting all people involved in serving in some capacity.  We've also got a group of people who have been empowered to do nothing and have no remorse about it.  Is it their fault?  To some extent, but the real fault lies in our lack of understanding God's Vision for His church in today's world.  I remember a few years back it was the "in" thing to develop a vision statement and then rally your church around this one statement and make everything evolve from it.  I personally thought it was the weakest attempt ever to try to get the church to come alive in the area of service.  So I wasn't surprised when it became another failed action that started as only an idea on a piece of paper with no real proof of success.   Now the big thing is to get people to come to a worship service once a week to hear a "super preacher" either live or on a screen and hope in some way he can mobilize people through this distant, at best, contact.  In reality all we are trying to do is get people to do more with less forethought, prayer, or direction.  They get involved in something that sounds good but has no good foundation and after a period of 4 weeks to 2 months they get disenchanted and quit.  I say all of this to say, "This faith is fly by night faith."  All of this sounds bad doesn't it?  That's because it has taken years to promote this agenda that is counterproductive to the Great Commission of Jesus Christ.  Now we are reaping what we have sown and this fly by night faith is failing miserably at a time when the world is more ready to hear and see real faith.  What are some causes of this fly by night faith?  Not spending quality time planning and praying when developing a ministry plan for long term.  Not finding and developing the gifts and talents of believers in your church.  Not taking quality time to develop character and Biblical Foundational Skills in each person.  Not mentoring new believers and showing them the possibilities of what Christ can do in their life.  There are many other things we have done to "dumb down" those who have the capacity to change their world forever but now it is time to change.  No more fly by night faith.  No more trying to be relative to our society weakness.  No more excuses.  Change......NOW.

I sometimes need to hear the TRUTH, just the truth.  I maybe don't want to hear the truth. I need to hear the truth..  Today''s blog is the bad and the ugly, and tomorrow I will share the good.  I want to open your eyes to what is going on around you so you can pray for wisdom and change.  I also want to let you know that the church can still rise and that everything we need to share the message with the world is right here and right now.  The difference maker will be God's people and leaders following the wisdom from the Holy Spirit, through God's Word and realizing they must come alive.  You can trust God and His Word.  You can believe Him when He says something.  Here are some encouraging and challenging words from Scripture.  Take it to heart. John 14: 11-14"Believe me: I am in my Father and my Father is in me. If you can't believe that, believe what you see—these works. The person who trusts me will not only do what I'm doing but even greater things, because I, on my way to the Father, am giving you the same work to do that I've been doing. You can count on it. From now on, whatever you request along the lines of who I am and what I am doing, I'll do it. That's how the Father will be seen for who he is in the Son. I mean it. Whatever you request in this way, I'll do. 15-17"If you love me, show it by doing what I've told you. I will talk to the Father, and he'll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you. This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can't take him in because it doesn't have eyes to see him, doesn't know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!
 18-20"I will not leave you orphaned. I'm coming back. In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you're going to see me because I am alive and you're about to come alive. At that moment you will know absolutely that I'm in my Father, and you're in me, and I'm in you.
We need to be follow Christ and lead the world.  Pray for a heart like that and take the next step of faith toward that foundational belief.  Fly By Night Faith will become Firm Faith.

The pilgrimage continues.....
David Warren

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Recomputing....

Matthew 7:13-14"Don't look for shortcuts to God. The market is flooded with surefire, easygoing formulas for a successful life that can be practiced in your spare time. Don't fall for that stuff, even though crowds of people do. The way to life—to God!—is vigorous and requires total attention.  As God's Word says, "Stay on the straight and narrow and don't try your own way." We have this GPS and it is awesome.  You put in an address or location and it takes you right there.  I mean you get every turn, every approaching turn, and it even speaks to you.  It is the coolest thing ever.  Getting used to it was fairly easy and now if there is any question about how to get to a specific place, we use our GPS.  Of course, GPS stands for Global Positioning Satellite and that means it knows where we are and what we need to do to get where we need to go.  That's exactly how the narrow and straight path to God are He knows the way and He IS  the way.  God knows our exact position and He knows the best path for each of us.  The thing we have to do is remember to follow His roadmap, the Bible.  His Mapquest has the best instructions and He shows us step by step how to walk that straight path.  If we listen....If we turn on the instructions......If we really want to follow His way.  I mean, I can play dumb with the best of em.  Act like I didn't read or hear something.  "Oh, is that what He meant", comes out of my mouth way too many times.   Deep inside I know when I'm following His GPS or trying to find my way on my own.  The thing is......He knows what I'm doing and still reaches out to us to get us back on track.  And by the way, we all do get off track.  That's when God reaches out to us like my GPS by saying,"Recomputing."  When my GPS does that it means I have strayed off the best route and I'm on my own.  That is dangerous at best, and tragic at worst.  God's way IS narrow, but it is also straight and He wants the best for each of us, but we must follow His way to experience it.  When I try to make it on my own and take a trail that off the beaten path, He gently calls out, "Follow Me."  When I get back on track it's like He starts recomputing and getting me back in the direction that is best.  His Way.  I guess in Bible Lingo GPS could mean God's Perfect Satellite, in that His power is always on and always guiding.  It is up to each of to allow Him to lead us down the narrow path.  There will be influences that come along and will try and get you to follow them, but don't do it.  His way is the best and we need to give Him our total attention and vigorously follow Him.  Vigorous means to be powerful and active and intent on what you do.  All the diciples were vigorous in their intent and they were intuned with God and His GPS and the lives that were impacted were many.  Tune in to God's GPS and you will see some awesome things as He leads you through the straight and narrow, not the broad and boring.  In Proverbs 16:25 it says, "There's a way that look harmless enough; look again-it leads straight to hell."  That is not the straight that anyone needs to follow.  Follow His straight and lead others by showing them that path and then He can say to them, "Recomputing!"


The pilgrimage continues.....

David Warren

Friday, June 25, 2010

E.R. The Last Episode


I was watching TV the other day and happened on an old episode of  the TV show E.R.  You know, it was the show about an emergency room that had about 20 major emergencies on each show.  It became "the show" to watch and I really enjoyed it for the time it was on tv.  Stars like George Clooney and many others found their foothold to movie stardom out of the show E.R.  One thing I noticed about E.R. is they  always had someone just about to die, or explode (weird episode) and people were running around everwhere trying to get the one thing that could save the person they were working.  You didn't see anyone going,"I'll get back with you on that, or give me a few minutes to finish my coffee."  Everything was an emergency.  One episode a hypochrondriac came in they ran a bunch of tests and found out he was imagining the whole thing.  You know what they did?  Kicked him out!  Why?  Because he didn't need help and he was in the way of others getting the emergency help they needed.

In Luke 5:27-32, Jesus approached a tax collector named Levi and Levi believed and became a follower of Jesus.  He invited Jesus to his house and invited his other friends and guess who they were?  Tax Collectors.  The Pharisees heard about it and complained to His disciples and they asked Jesus, "Why do you eat with and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"  This is where Jesus said it all.  He said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."  Jesus was setting up His own E.R. and he was receiving patients.  He knew what illness they had and He had the cure for what ailed them.  What ailed them was SIN.  The cure was forgiveness.  He was offering it to all and those who got cured were so excited they told their friends they could be cured too.
Are we looking at the urgency to see others healed by opening a Doctor's Office for Walk Ins, or maybe a Rest Home for Sleep Ins, or maybe we don't even worry with a Doctor's Office because we hope the sickness will just go away.  It's not going to go away and it is an Emergency, and people are still sick, and they need His healing in their life.  Have we let all the ambulances run out of gas?  Are we not receiving patients anymore?  Is there no more medicine in the Pharmacy because of neglect.   Whatever has lulled us into thinking a lost person going to hell is no emergency needs to be expelled from our thinking. Luke 14:23 "The master said, "Then go to the country roads.  Whoever you find, dram them in.  I want my house full." Sounds like His emergency room is still serving people who need one thing, salvation.  Never get talked into believing there aren't anymore sick people around you.  If you offer them the King of Kings, you never know how many will respond.  But you must offer.  It's an EMERGENCY!!!  In one of th earlier episodes I remember a rich guy that had been saved in the E.R. coming back and offering them an enormous amout of money out of  gratitude.  He was able to walk in the E.R. and help now that he was cured.  If you have been cured, you surely want to do anything you can to make sure the E.R. keeps serving people so others can be like you.  All Jesus wants is your whole heart.  After you give that He will explain the other ways you can serve.  Keep in mind that this show is going to run it's full season and then be over....No reruns!!!  Make this the last episode anyone will ever need to experience.



The pilgrimage continues......



David Warren

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Queen for The Day! A Wordless Witness


As I mentioned in yesterday's blog, I want to speak about a Father's attitude toward His daughter.  I am blessed to have the two most wonderful daughters a Father could have and thank God every day for their love for Christ.  I am blessed beyond measure, not because of their accomplishments to this point, which are many, but because of the Godly heart they exhibit in wanting to serve Christ.  In being a man of God we realize that our stand has to be in word and deed and there will be times when those two will be  challenged.  The challenge for a Godly woman is a very unique challenge and much different than the challenge for a man and this pivotal life of purpose must be handled with care and compassion.  When my daughters were born I looked deep into their little eyes and saw endless possibilities of what they could be for Christ.  I could almost see the impact they would have on their husband, should they marry, and the Godly way they would shape their lives to conform to the image of Christ.  Believe it or not, I really saw that in both of them.  No special effects, but just a glimpse of how they would impact their world.  You see it was different for them because they were woman, not man, and God had placed them in the home and our world with a very special way of ministering to others.  They were made to have a "wordless witness" and the lives they would affect would be by what people saw in them.  Not their outward beauty, which is fleeting, but their inward beauty, which is eternal and lasting. Proverbs 31: 30 says "Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting' but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised."  A woman who fears the Lord and follows all His Word will be a force in the home and the church that will impact all she comes in contact with.   God is seen in a Godly woman through the inward beauty she shows by her reactions, reflections, and remarks.  The Wordless Witness of a Godly woman is more powerful than we can ever express or understand.  Very few times will beauty in motion be expressed about a man's witness, but it fits for a woman.  They are different...

That's why it is important for fathers to protect their daughters and hold on to them as long as possible to allow them to bloom into the person God wants.  If that happens your girls will choose a man who will allow her to continue to develop her Wordless Witness for Christ and she will become a true helpmate that grows more every day in her inward beauty.  The hardest thing for me to do is to let my girls go.  People have made fun of me because I hold on so tight to my girls.  I believe it is God's commission to me as a father to do just that.   When they commit to marry and their heart is given to their husband, then that special time sensitive bond is broken and another bond is formed that goes along with the way their husband leads.  It is put upon me as a father to let that bond with their husband become their next strongest bond in their life.  Of course, the strongest bond they have is with their heavenly Father.  When that process is able to get beyond what society has been feeding us and get to God's Truth, then that marriage will be even stronger than the one the girl witnessed in her own home.  Stronger....not weaker.
A big part of this process is the great witness my wife has on our girls and the Godly character she shows in responding to God, me, and those around her.  My wife has been a wonderful model of a Wordless Witness and the light of Christ has been shining through her all the way as our girls matured. Our girls got to see the good, the bad, and the ugly, realizing that in the throes of her humanity one thing stood out.  Their mother knew her role as a woman and she lived it to the fullest.
That's really all God wants.  He wants us all to love Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.  In that love He will show us exactly how to live our everyday lives as He made us to live them  Totally dependent on Him and thirsty for His instructions.  If you want to check your moral compass in a world that has lost it's way, then look to the example and wordless witness of a Godly Woman. There you will find God.  Proverbs 31:10 says, "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies."  I believe I know where three of them are; my wife and my two daughters.  I hope they always follow their heavenly Father's instructions and continue to allow God to use them to impact their world.  If they do that, then they are like Queen Esther.  A woman who was placed in a very special place for such a time as this.  God chose to make her a person who would impact generations to come through her inward beauty.  He equipped her to be the right person at the right time and never took away from who she was, a woman.  I pray my heart will always be turned toward allowing God to use my girls for His glory.  He made them, He saved them. He loves them. Everything else is just living the life.  Allow your girls to be a Queen for THIS day.  The world needs to see Godly women who are adorned with God's grace and mercy.  That is their Wordless Witness!!



The pilgrimage continues.....




David Warren