Simply Christ

Simply Christ A ministry of renewal and revival for those seeking to follow CHRIST. Galatians 2:20 This is what being a follower of Jesus is all about. John 15

What makes Jesus so different from other religions leaders is not the moral code that he sets forth but the new way of living out that moral code rooted in faith. This way of faith starts with radical changes on the inside that then proceed, as fruit does on a tree, to the outside (Matthew 23:25-26). This involves learning to bring our hurts, our sins, and our limitations to God in faith. The bet

ter we get at this the greater will be our inner power, purpose, and peace, which in turn results in acts of creative and genuine love. We put off our old way of trying to be happy with ourselves and the things of this world and put on Christ’s new way of living which is about trusting God and resting in His plans and purposes. The difference is amazing.

05/25/2026

Good morning – with summer unofficially starting in the United States today and with my wanting to “enjoy” all the warm sunny days, my verse for the week comes from Proverbs.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all my ways acknowledge Him and He will direct my paths.”

Several things seem to jump out at me with these verses:

All my heart - not just some, not just a part, but all. When it comes to God, it’s an all or none affair - sort of like marriage.

Not lean on My own understanding - my view of things is very limited and often self-centered. If there’s anything that I’ve learned over the 50 years that I’ve followed Christ, it’s this one. I know so little and I’m prone to doing the silliest and stupidest of things on my own. So I’m a definite believer in not leaning on my own understanding or view of things….🙏🙏

Acknowledge God in all things - this has really become clear to me over the last, several years. Bringing God and his love, power, and purposes into my life changes EVERYTHING for the better. It’s really my only hope for a great summer 😳.

So today I’m committing myself wholeheartedly to bringing Christ and his love, power and purposes into everything going on this summer 🤗. Hopefully you’ll join me…🙏

Blessings - Pastor Pete

05/18/2026

Week 20 in our journey through 2026 with Christ

"Humble yourselves under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” I Peter 5:6-7

With yesterday being the national day of prayer here in in USA I decided to take what the Apostle Peter says about prayer in his first letter to focus on, to pray, and to share with others this week. This will help me that though trusting God and putting his will above mine may not be easy and comes with its share of anxiety, difficulties and hardship, the opposite is utter disaster – not only for me but for those around me as well.

But if we humble ourselves God has promised to life us up in the end. This lifting up will be an exalting and the beginning of a new life in a new body and in a new world. To bridge the two God has encouraged us to pray, to case our anxiety, fear, and concerns, which will be many, upon him.

So off into the week we go with God’s will and kingdom on our mind, all the time keeping our hand on the hot line to God for encouragement, help and support.

Blessings – Pastor Pete

05/14/2026

“But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven”
-Jesus
“Always be prepared to give an answer”
-Peter
“Stay deeply rooted and firm in your faith”
-Paul
“Do this in remembrance of me”
-Jesus

05/11/2026

“Do this to remember me.” The words of Jesus during the last supper.

Our aim here at SimplyChrist in giving you a verse each week to think about, pray, and seek to share is to help you walk with Christ during your day. It’s easy to go to church, read your Bible, and enjoy uplifting Christian songs during the day but it’s a lot harder to bring Jesus and His power, promises and purposes into all the things that take place during the week.

Our “Verse-A-Week” focus seeks to help with that. If you’re thinking about a certain aspect of Jesus’ greatness, and if you’re praying that verse back to him when you’re upset or concerned about something, it will be a lot easier for you to actually bring Christ and his promises and purposes into things in faith. So our verse for this the 19th week of the year comes from the Gospels where Jesus is instructing His followers to eat some bread and to drink some wine in remembrance of Him.

Today we call this communion or we call it the Lord’s Supper and I was blessed to be able to do this very thing yesterday with some fellow Christians at a church in Sauk Village, Il. We had a wonderful time reminding ourselves of what Jesus had done for us when he died that horrible death on the cross. Out of that death came forgiveness, hope, and a new way of living, one with love at its center.

Any notions I might have about changing myself, others or the world for the better involving my own wisdom, strength, and determination have to be put aside. They may be able to invent some pretty cool things but they are unable to change the heart and fill it with what it needs to truly live. Only Jesus can do that and he does it when we “eat” and “drink” in his sacrifice, his love, his forgiveness, and his power into our hearts and minds in faith.

Jesus’ use of bread and wine for this show that we need to take in Jesus’ love every day for without Him we’ll surely fall back into old selfish and sinful ways of getting through our day. So this week I’ll be thinking about, praying, and seeking to share with others the importance of remembering how great Jesus is and how he wants to change my life by showing me a new way of living involving His love and purposes.

Blessings – Pastor Pete

05/04/2026

Good Morning Fellow Brothers and Sisters in Christ

The verse that I’ll be meditating on, praying, and seeking with God’s help to share this first full week of May comes from the book of Titus chapter 2. There we see the Apostle Paul urging Titus to encourage the believers of his day to -

“Live godly lives during this present age, waiting for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Jesus gave himself for us and rescued us from evil self-centered lives eager to do what was truly good.”

This is one of those verses that help me to see how perspective is everything. In order for me to live fully I need to know what’s important and what’s not. I need to understand that It’s not a matter of how big I think something is or feels to me - It’s how big it is in God’s plans for me, for others, and for the universe.

When it comes to God’s plans Jesus Christ is front and center. He is the Alpha and Omega, the Cornerstone, and the King of Kings. If I'm to make sense of myself and what’s going on in my life and in the world, I need to keep Jesus and His return to make all things new, front and center in my thinking and in my actions. To neglect this is to bring anxiety, frustration, pain and grief into my day, my week and my future.

So this week I'll check my life compass regularly to make sure it’s pointing towards the truth of Jesus’ return. If you have a favorite verse involving the Lord's return I'd love to have you share it with me as a comment to this post.

Blessings – Pastor Pete

04/27/2026

Good morning. everyone.

My verse that I'll be thinking about, praying and seeking to share for this last week of April is about Paul and Silas from Acts 16 where after being beaten with rods and thrown in prison I read,

“But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God while the other prisoners were listening to them.”

I was reminded by this verse how people are always watching me, especially when I go through something difficult, unexpected, and painful.

They’re not watching me because I’m that interesting or even that they’re that interested. They’re watching me because they’re trying to make sense of why I’m keeping my cool when I should be losing it.

Thankfully this is Something Jesus knows a lot about and now wants to help me with - 😍

Blessings - Pastor Pete

04/24/2026

“No one felt that anything was their own….”
The believers in Acts

Thinking about this verse this week has reminded me how transformative it is to realize that nothing is really my own. Everything that I have, even my life is a gift from God. Anything that I’ve earned or made I’ve made with the mind, skills and resources that he’s provided.

Thinking about this and acknowledging this helps me to connect what I do and have with him and his purposes. Which as I’ve discovered, is always infinitely better than anything I could have come up with on my own.

So today any time I spend with my wife and family, or play pickle ball, or go on a hike, or even if I do something as mundane as having coffee at Duncan, I’m going to seek to connect it with Christ’s loving and eternal purposes and not my own.

Looking forward to an interesting day.

Blessings - Pastor Pete

04/20/2026

Good day everyone!! It's the beginning of the week and so once again we start the week with a verse to focus on and to guide us in our walk with Christ. This week the Bible verse that we'll be thinking about, praying through, and seeking to share with others is Acts 4:32

“All the believers were of one heart and one mind and no one felt that what he owned was his own; everyone was sharing.”

What an amazing verse. These people didn’t “have to” share, and there’s no sign that the disciples made them give, these people were just so overwhelmed by the reality of Jesus that they just did it.

I see glimpses of this in my life when my heart and mind are focused on who Jesus is and that he’s alive and returning soon. Walking with Jesus helps me see the big picture and that he is with me to help, to guide, and to fill my life with what’s truly good.

So here’s to loosening my grip on the things that "I own" this week and being of one heart and mind with Christ and my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.

Here's hoping that you'll join me in thinking about, praying through and seeking Christ's help in sharing this amazing verse during the coming week.

Blessings – Pastor Pete

04/13/2026

“When the council saw the boldness of Peter and John, they were amazed and realized what being with Jesus had done for them.” Acts 4

It’s always exciting to see the difference in people who are following Christ and bringing his love, power and purposes into their daily lives.

In the verse above we see two of Jesus' disciples who had abandoned Him just months earlier, now proclaiming Jesus to the very people involved in his crucifixion. Gutsy!!

Sadly, you don’t see this very often, for being with Christ involves a 24/7 kind of commitment. Total saturation of head, heart and hands with the love, forgiveness, power and purposes of the risen Christ.

So that’s my goal this week - to spend my week with Jesus - thinking about him, talking with him during my day, and asking for his help in loving others as he loves me.

Looking forward to the difference this will make as I go through the week. …🤗

Blessings - Pastor PetIe

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