St James Tampa

How meditation and study bring us closer to God.

Rev. Dr. Candace Lewis D.S.

God rebuilds things to restore relationship with Him.

When God builds something, the “Work” is accomplished in record time.  But, the work on the workers just begins.  

With any project, there will be opposition.  Nehemiah opposes the opposition!

To ensure sustainability of a project, we need to secure support & logistics.

A secure foundation is necessary before rebuilding can take place.    

A healthy mind is like rich soil, ready for new ideas to be planted and grow.

Creating a healthy time balance in our lives based on Godly principals exude joy!

Our lives are fully revealed when our lives are lived fully for God.

The soul can be thought of as the center of our identity. Too often, we “lose our soul” to everything else that tries to define us.

Money can have all sorts of power over our lives. Realizing God is Lord of our finances allows us to experience freedom and health.

In God, who is three-in-one, we find the perfect source & expression of community.

A healthy emotional life is a matter of the heart.  The Lord grants us anew heart in Jesus Christ and a new emotional life with God’s Holy Spirit in us.  

We are not to stay on the launchpad, we are to be rocketing forward and reaching our FULL potential in Him. Join St. James at 9:30 or 11am tomorrow, as we Reach Full Potential together!

The disciples were focusing on “small” visions for Jesus: restoring a political kingdom. Jesus calls them to focus on the grander vision: being His witnesses to the ends of the earth. He provides them a means to carry out this vision in the Holy Spirit. And when the disciples are caught focusing on Jesus going up to heaven, the angels remind them to focus forward into their future. 

The disciples return to doing what they know, fishing, yet they catch nothing. When Jesus shows up and asks them to go one more time in his way, they catch an amazing amount. When we allow Jesus to persevere over “what we think we know”, he takes it and multiplies it!

All of us have doubts about a vision for the future, and Thomas is the epitome. Jesus reveals God’s grace to cancel our doubts. Yet, in some ways, Thomas also gets a bad wrap. He wasn’t so much doubting, as standing in his convictions: “I need to see it to believe it”. Jesus reveals that our convictions must rest in him, and not in what we see. Our conviction in Jesus is the true armor against any doubt we might have.