Divine Savior Church-Delray Beach

As Christians, we live in this world as strangers. Exiles. And now, in the middle of a pandemic, we have left behind everything familiar and don’t know what the future holds. So, how do we navigate this “new normal”?  We can find a lot of hope and direction in the book of Daniel. He was also an exile in Babylon. He had to leave behind everything he was used to. He had to live a “new normal” in a c...

Evil exists in this world because we fell into sin. It threatens our bodies and also our souls. God often protects us from evil to our bodies. But sometimes He allows it. Why? For our good! When evil does come, God gives us what we need to bear it. Everything God does protects us from evil to our souls. And He will deliver us from all evil on the last day. So acknowledging that the kingdom, the po...

Why would God lead us into temptation? Doesn’t He love us and want us to live His way? Of course He does! With this request, we are admitting that the enemy that tempts us is stronger than we are, and hates us and wants to destroy us. So we are asking that God wouldn’t let temptation anywhere near us. He is the only One more powerful than the enemy who wants to harm us. 

We haven’t even earned the privilege of talking with God. Our sins have separated us from Him. But He forgave us through Jesus. So this request is as important to us as breathing. We humbly ask God to forgive us for all the ways we failed Him. But before we ask Him to forgive us, we have to be willing to forgive others. This prayer reminds us of the importance of extending grace before asking for...

Finally, it is time to ask God for the things we need for our physical life and health. Everything we have is a gift from God. He will give us what we need, even if we don’t ask. So we ask Him now for what we need today. We don’t need to worry about tomorrow. God took care of us yesterday. We know He will take care of us tomorrow. This is a prayer asking God for contentment… and the trust that wha...

God’s will is that that people of all nations know Him as loving Lord and Savior and come to worship Him. His will is that we live the kind of lives that honor Him. Our wills are so often different. We so often want other things. And so… before we get to that part of the prayer where we are asking Him to bless us and give us things… we want to worship Him and yield ourselves to his will… being wil...

God’s kingdom is where He rules. He rules in our hearts. He rules in the hearts of people who love Him. In this prayer, we are asking that his ruling activity would increase on this earth. We are asking that his ruling activity in our own hearts would increase. That He would grow our faith strong. His kingdom also comes when new people come to know Him. So we are asking that his Word would bring m...

God’s name is everything He reveals to us about Himself in his Word. It is holy. Sacred. We can’t make it holy. It already is. But we can keep it holy by living in such a way that honors and thanks Him. We can keep his name holy, or sacred, when we share it with others, and tell them how awesome He is! We begin this prayer with worship… letting God know He means everything to us.

Not everyone knows how to pray. As followers of Jesus, we want to know how to talk to our loving God. Jesus gives us a template that teaches us how to pray. His template, the Lord’s Prayer, reminds us that because Jesus gave us access to his Father, we are talking to our loving heavenly Father when we talk to God. We are children of God who can approach Him with joy and confidence!

What is the first thing we hear people say when someone has died? “Oh, she’s in a better place.” The problem is, in many cases it's simply not true. Dead people don't always go to a better place. That might be what we’d like to believe, but that still doesn’t make it true. The scripture clearly teaches that there is a hell. And it also teaches that many people will end up there. As uncom...

How often have we heard these words, “Let your conscience be your guide.” No doubt the acceptance of this concept is the reason why so many people's lives are messed up and broken. The problem is that a lot of us imagine our conscience to be a spiritual thermometer. We assume it can be placed into any situation and it will tell us the moral temperature - too hot, too cold or just right. But,...

In a world where truth is relative, the idea of judging a person by an absolute standard of right and wrong goes completely cross-grain. Many christians get flustered and confused when others quote Jesus’ own words “Do not judge.” The idea that Jesus forbids his followers to judge is a myth. Refusing to make judgements and call sin, sin Is not what Jesus asks us to do. As we’ll see, he did so all...

Many Christians believe God has a highly detailed blueprint for their lives that includes a specific, preordained job, career, house, spouse, car and everything in between. This causes many people to go crazy trying to figure out what God’s specific will for them is. Some get so caught up in it that they they don't make any decision because they are paralysed with fear that they will make the...

The myth that a godly home guarantees godly kids (and godly adults) is simply not true and finds no basis in scriptures nor in real life experiences. The myth is based primarily on the Proverb “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. The problem is, this is a proverb and not a promise from God. Its an observation that is generally but not always true.tho...

Some of us have been taught that forgiveness means forgetting that something happened - a head in the sand posture that ignores the obvious. Some of us think of it as a never ending series of second chances. others view it as a second chance with all the consequences and old baggage removed. Still some view it as the immediate and full restoration of a broken relationship, complete with the same l...

The word in the street is that faith is a potent mixture of intellectual and emotional self-control that when properly harnessed can literally change outcomes through positive thinking and clear visualisation. Its what successful people tout as the key to their achievements, survivors of great tragedies cite as the source of their endurance, televangelists credit with healing power and motivationa...