Author: David Cay

Encounters with Jesus – February 15, 2026

Read the passage: Matthew 8:5-13

Growing up, I had a pastor named Jesse Morales. He was awesome! He played basketball with me. He was always asking about my walk with Jesus. And he believed in me! When I was in high school, he asked me to preach one Sunday. That was scary!

However, the best thing I admired about him was that he always shared his faith. He always told me stories of sharing his faith with someone at the gas station and then I’d meet that guy at church.

Then one day, he was diagnosed with ALS, which is a fatal neurodegenerative disease. This disease starts taking away your motor neurons. It progressed to the point where he couldn’t talk anymore.

So, when I visited him, he would communicate using a letterboard. I had to write down what he was saying to me. And he was always asking me again, how my walk with Jesus was going.

Do you know what amazed me the most?! Even though he couldn’t talk anymore, he was still sharing his faith, using the letterboard. He had a caregiver named Sonya and with the letterboard he shared about how she can have peace with God and eternal life with Jesus!

And you know what happened?! Sonya became a Christian! Isn’t that crazy!

When I heard that story, I was so amazed at his faith. Here’s a man that can’t talk anymore and yet he’s still find ways to share Jesus to people. He could have packed it in and just waited to be with be with Jesus. But he was still on mission, even till his last breath.

Our passage today is about amazing faith. We will learn from a person whose faith was so great that even Jesus was amazed.

The Book of Deuteronomy – January 11, 2026

Read the passage: Deuteronomy 5:1-7

Loneliness has become a huge issue in our world today. Back in 2018, there was a study called the Loneliness Experiment, run by BBC. It sampled 55,000 people from around the world and it found that 40% of 16 to 24 year olds feel lonely often or very often.

That means that 4 out of 10 young people suffer from loneliness! That is heartbreaking- we know deep down, it shouldn’t be this way. We are meant to thrive in our relationship with God and others. To feel this type of intimacy and community because everyone wants to love and be loved.

And it’s no different with God. He wants a relationship. He wants to love and he wants us to love him back. This is foundational to our relationship with him. And this is what we see today in our Bible passage.

Questions From Jesus – November 30, 2025

Read the passage: Luke 7:36-50

Many of us look down on people who act or live differently than we do. The longer we stay comfortable in our churches, the more diligently we need to examine our own hearts.

It gets easy to fall into the same trap as the Pharisees. Sure, maybe we become outwardly flawless, rule keeping and it looks like we have our lives all together. But deep down in our hearts, where many people can’t see- we are prideful, lustful, self centered and judgmental.

We lack love, we lack mission, lack commitment to Jesus and our hearts are hard. Sure, we’ll do some things right, just like Simon the Pharisee did. But we’ll be missing the intensity that we see from this woman in our story. In Jesus’ words, we will love little.

Questions From Jesus – November 16, 2025

Read the passage: Luke 8:40-50

We sometimes do crazy things when we’re desperate. We are willing to break the rules and take risks. This is what we see in our passage today- a woman with a terrible illness and she’s desperate for healing. So much so, that she was willing to break all the societal rules just to get to Jesus.

Questions From Jesus – November 9, 2025

Read the passage: Luke 8:22-25

We often forfeit a lot of peace that we can have because we don’t want to trust God. That is what the Christian life is based on – it’s based on trust! Trusting that God loves us and will take care of us.

But for many of us, we struggle trusting an invisible God. So today I want to focus on a question that Jesus asked: Where is your faith?