What can the Chaplain do for me?
My primary job as Chaplain of the V. L. O. A. is to conduct the Sunday morning worship service at our reunions. In addition, should you have the need to talk with someone who has "been there, done that," I am available to listen.
I have been asked to initiate prayer requests using email from time to time. I thought it might be more effective to post prayer requests here on our web site. So if you know of a family or one of our own in need of our spiritual support, send a simple email request describing the need and the person or family in need, to me at the address below.
If you want to talk, call: 352-341-1390
Send Prayer Requests and other communications to: Maverick36@tampabay.rr.com
God Bless
Rev. John E. Doyle
Quarterly Devotional - - - Jan - Mar 2012
Devotional
I woke up this morning (thank God!) to thick fog that covered everything that was not within six feet of me. "Wonderful," I thought. I was planning to get an early haircut, and the shop was on the other side of town. The decision I had to make was to go or to wait until the fog lifted. I decided to go. I drove with restricted visibility, not much fun at all! This is a lot like how many of us approach our relationship with God.
We know where we want our relationship to take us, but, for many of us, the pathway is fogged-in. Too many of us let other people tell us "their way" to a relationship with God, which is not always the way God wants us to come to him. We listen to any Tom, Dick, and Harry that says, "Here's what the Bible says," when what they mean is here is "what I think."
The results all to often is a "fogged-in" view of what God wants from us. Just think of the many denominations, each with their own "God says!" way of relating to God. So, where do you look to find "God's way?" The answer is found in God's Holy Word, the Holy Bible. His Word, His Holy Spirit, and His guidance will take you where He desires you to be.
"Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves;
but our sufficiency is of God;" II Corinthians 3:5
"Casting all your cares upon him: for he careth for you." I Peter 5:7
Chaplain John Doyle
What can the Chaplain do for me?
My primary job as Chaplain of the V. L. O. A. is to conduct the Sunday morning worship service at our reunions. In addition, should you have the need to talk with someone who has "been there, done that," I am available to listen.
I have been asked to initiate prayer requests using email from time to time. I thought it might be more effective to post prayer requests here on our web site. So if you know of a family or one of our own in need of our spiritual support, send a simple email request describing the need and the person or family in need, to me at the address below.
If you want to talk, call: 352-341-1390
Send Prayer Requests and other communications to: Maverick36@tampabay.rr.com
God Bless
Rev. John E. Doyle
Quarterly Devotional - - - Jan - Mar 2012
Devotional
I woke up this morning (thank God!) to thick fog that covered everything that was not within six feet of me. "Wonderful," I thought. I was planning to get an early haircut, and the shop was on the other side of town. The decision I had to make was to go or to wait until the fog lifted. I decided to go. I drove with restricted visibility, not much fun at all! This is a lot like how many of us approach our relationship with God.
We know where we want our relationship to take us, but, for many of us, the pathway is fogged-in. Too many of us let other people tell us "their way" to a relationship with God, which is not always the way God wants us to come to him. We listen to any Tom, Dick, and Harry that says, "Here's what the Bible says," when what they mean is here is "what I think."
The results all to often is a "fogged-in" view of what God wants from us. Just think of the many denominations, each with their own "God says!" way of relating to God. So, where do you look to find "God's way?" The answer is found in God's Holy Word, the Holy Bible. His Word, His Holy Spirit, and His guidance will take you where He desires you to be.
"Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves;
but our sufficiency is of God;" II Corinthians 3:5
"Casting all your cares upon him: for he careth for you." I Peter 5:7
Chaplain John Doyle