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09/03/2026

Crumb's of Tuckahoe September 3rd, 2026

13. As soon as Jesus heard the news, he left in a boat to a remote area to be alone. But the crowds heard where he was headed and followed on foot from many towns.
14. Jesus saw the huge crowd as he stepped from the boat, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.
Matthew 14:13&14(NLT)

Yesterday I was blessed by a brother in the faith having a discussion about the word, Anothen, a Greek word with a few different ways to define it. The first meaning "from above." The second "from a higher place, or realm." Again it can mean, "anew/ or again." And finally "from the beginning."

So it is with great care that I share this little thought this morning so not to be misconstrued.

Jesus was in the world when he heard the news about John the Baptizer being beheaded and Jesus just wanted to get away. He wasn't holding up in the temple, he wasn't hold up in his apartment, or the house of one of the disciples. He was actively fulfilling the physical role that he was committed to being with the people whom he came to set free.

But we also know from other scriptures that he often got away to a place of solitude, but always came back to serve. Just look what he did here out of compassion everyone who was brought to him was healed.

Jesus came from a Higher place, he came from heaven with His Father. His higher realm was that he knew what so many in the church today don't and that is how he was already in Christ from his beginning.
You know the world looks at the church through clouded lenses because pastors and teachers have not searched for the truest forms of the scriptures. There is so much more depth and meaning to the verses in the Bible and when you realize that word "anothen" is an invitation for us to join Jesus in all that the Father has for us, maybe one day those who call themselves believers will be able to read John 17 with an amazing total understanding that we are in the Father and the Father is in us just as we were all created to be one together.

Y'all have a great day.
Pastor Gery

09/02/2026

Tending to the Cross!!

This morning, as I was weed-eating around the church, I saw just how overgrown the grass was around the cross.

And it reminded me, are we tending to the cross in our lives today?

The cross can get so overgrown that we stop seeing or seeking to understand the sacrifice of Jesus, and what that means for our daily following after Him.

What does tending to the cross mean to you?

09/02/2026

Crumb's of Tuckahoe September 2nd, 2026.

Today's Crumb is written by Bethel friend and partner in the faith Evangelist Ric Wright. Enjoy.

I have not put out much on Facebook lately. I have been on standby . . . Watching and waiting, preaching and teaching, prophesying and praying . . .

I believe we are in the verge of BIG changes in every area of our lives as we know it . . .

Our Spiritual world is going to be moved into a time of Great Revival. Religious political correctness is not working and there will be a resurgence of Biblical truth back in church pulpits. I am believing for morals, values, and humanities conscience will become in alinement with Biblical standards again.

Our Financial world is about to change drastically.

The systems of this Geo-political World are going to shift as never before. We are in a season of exposure. Political figures corruption will be in the headlines. The political systems will crumble! I chose no political party. My political affiliation cannot save me. They speak only to keep or regain political power. We have believed lies and been under control of enemy for far too long. They only want to keep us divided. We are the UNITED STATES!

The media opinions which have been brainwashing the masses (operation mockingbird) will be exposed. We live in a time of many voices- guard your heart and mind.

Warning: Do not be quick to react to what you see. Do not allow your emotions to be your guide.

Stand on the WORD of GOD! Kingdoms rise and fall but HIS TRUTH will always stand and remain.

Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!

I choose Jesus!

I choose to have Holy Spirit as my TEACHER!

I serve the one and only TRUE GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob!

Allah is NOT HIS Name!

Who is AWAKE?

JESUS is coming soon!
Evangelist Ric Wright.

There's an awakening happening all around us. Do you have the eyes to see? There are conversations happening every day, do you have the ears to hear? Divine appointments are occurring daily, do you carry the Holy Spirit to help you discern these moments?

Have a great day
Pastor Gery

09/02/2026

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09/01/2026

Crumb's of Tuckahoe September 1st, 2026.

This morning in my quiet time I wrestled like Jacob, looking for a blessing.

I questioned God repeatedly asking why?

Why would you place me in the garden and just let the crushing continue?

But it went deeper, to calling and looking for peace and a statement of welcome home.

Have you ever been to a place where you can see the light, but it just seems so far away and you don't know if you have the energy to make it?
I told God this morning if, I would have realized just how difficult ministry would be, I don't know that I would have ever raised my hand.

I answered the call, because I wanted a campground ministry to let families find healing, individuals to find Jesus. I wanted a sanctuary for the hurting and broken to find safety and solace on sacred ground.

I wanted a place for recreation, and resurrection.

And today just like so many of us know why we don't pray for patience, because God will place the situations that show us patience immediately in our paths. And everything I wanted in ministry has been placed in direct opposition in my path at Bethel.

The UMC States, first do know harm, and yet are bringing death to many churches across the nation.
I wanted to bring freedom to a few men at a time and show them that church is more than just a place to go on Sunday morning, and found a system that refuses to grant freedom.
I found a program that has worked for years to help change community, only to have one family influence community to shut out the same ones who Jesus went to.
I found a religious system that lies to protect itself and only uses their own rules when it benefits them and "Screw the Truth", because it would reveal their own hypocrisy, and topple the system that they have removed God from. Go ahead and use your pronouns. Use your free will to take a dump in the empty tomb, Go ahead and tell God He made a mistake making you genetically a man and your feelings are more important that you can choose to dress up like a woman.
Go ahead and steal what was dedicated to the Lord, because one day I will take my bride by the hand and smile as we walk to our cabin by the lake. Looking out the picture window with our Bibles and a cup of coffee watching the sun come up in total peace knowing that Bethel is flourishing. Weddings are taking place, babies are being born, voices are being raised and Jesus is becoming a reality like no other.

Today I grieve because of my heart as a shepherd to protect what I was given, but I grieve more because of the lost who think they are serving God by crushing others.

Thank you Father for our talk today and thank you for showing me that you have had this planned all along and that I am longing for the resurrection because I have felt the weight of Gethsemane.

Lord I place Bethel completely in your hands as the broken down Judicial system, the political system and the religious system have tried to extinguish the flame at Bethel for years now. And we remain humble and faithful to you our Savior and redeemer.

Thank you all for allowing me to vent today.
Pastor Gery

08/31/2026

Crumb's of Tuckahoe August 31st, 2026

Crumb's today submitted by chaplain Doni Daudel friend of Bethel and man of God.

Something to think about:

If you’re the example, make it worth following:

9 Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11 “The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men-extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
12 ‘I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’
13 “And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’
14 “I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Luke 18:9-14

Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector. The Pharisee was called to be Gods Ambassador, messenger and shepherd to the sheep, Gods people. The tax collector was a man the people would despise and hate because he inflated the actual tax for his own profit. Jesus said, “The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself..” His prayer wasn’t a prayer at all. It was pompous, arrogant and self-righteous boasting. He listed “his works” with the intent to prove he was better than those listening and attacked the tax collectors character by saying, “God, I thank You that I am not like other men-extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector..” Look at the heart of the tax collector, “And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ Who set the right example?

When we’re talking with others which person do we represent more; the Pharisee or the tax collector? The Pharisees loved to be the center of attention. In Matthew 23:5, Jesus said this about the Pharisees: “But all their works they do to be seen by men..” The Pharisees loved to put others down by making themselves the example of their own perceived perfection. Are we like that? Do we try to put a spotlight on ourselves by making ourselves the example of what a great, awesome and holy person we are in every conversation we have? Do we boast of “our works” with the same self-righteous heart the Pharisee did? Or do we realize, like the tax collector did with great humility, that we’re not even worthy to raise our eyes to heaven because of our great sin?

If we’re going to use an example of what a follower of Christ looks like, Christ needs to be that example, not us. When we’re having conversation about anything in life, if we feel the need to make ourselves the “example of excellence,” we have a serious pride problem. This is what led to the harsh rebuke from Jesus to the religious leaders. All they did was burden the people and boast of their “righteous works.” The only example the religious leaders set perfectly was that of a hypocrite! Submission, humility, obedience and faithfulness are the examples we should be striving to set. If we have to insert “I” into every conversation and example we use, none of those attributes will ever be seen. Make Jesus your example and strive to be that example with great humility.
Chaplain Doni Daudel

Y'all have a great first day of the week.
Pastor Gery

08/28/2026

Crumb's of Tuckahoe August 28th, 2026.

6. In the same way you received Jesus our Lord and Messiah by faith, continue your journey of faith, progressing further into your union with him!
7. Your spiritual roots go deeply into his life as you are continually infused with strength, encouraged in every way. For you are established in the faith you have absorbed and enriched by your devotion to him!
8. Beware that no one distracts you or intimidates you in their attempt to lead you away from Christ's fullness by pretending to be full of wisdom when they are filled with endless arguments of human logic. For they operate with humanistic and clouded judgements based on the mindset of this world system, and not the anointed truths of the Anointed One.
Colossians 2:6-8(TPT)

Confession, when I put down my Passion Translation Bible I still read scriptures every day, but something was missing. I struggled with multiple other translations. I read the ESV, the NRSV, the NLT, the Message translation and even the KJV. But something was still missing.

Be honest here before God. Do you really understand what you are reading in the translation of the choice you are reading from? Does that translation make you want to spend more time in a relationship with Christ? Might I just continue to share?

When I picked up my Passion Translation Bible again I found what I was missing, I started having visions again with the Holy Spirit, I have seen my prayer life go back to what moving from glory to glory, not begging God to do something. I most recently had a dream again and that dream is going to stop time! Thank you Jesus.

I was also given this revelation over the past 72 hours. "The Holy Spirit in us is a gift for us, the Holy Spirit on us is a gift for everyone else."

When we become so in love with Christ the hope of the world, and love him that same way he loves us transformation is created because it's already coded in our DNA. Just like the metamorphosis of the caterpillar to the butterfly is coded in its DNA, we too are designed to help transform the world and each other.

All I can say right now is, heaven help those who have told God that he created them incorrectly and their delusion has been caused by humanistic clouded judgements of this world.
There's a revival brewing in America just like that of the Jesus movement in California. If you remember that era it was Love, peace and pharmaceutical influence looking for the God of the world and how to understand him better.
I think that the pain so many have felt that turned them off to the design God created, is the same one's that God will use once again for the last great revival before his return on the clouds.

The systems of this world are already being torn down and there's only one way to survive. And his name is Jesus!

Have a great day
Pastor Gery

08/26/2026

Crumb's of Tuckahoe August 26th 2026

15. Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you.
16 For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world.
17 And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.
1 John 2:15-17(NLT)

Today I was blessed to get my bride a Venti Hot White Mocha, many of you will automatically know by that order where I was at. It's not the drink that I found God speaking to me about the scriptures above, but in the question I received before placing my order.
Sir, are you signed up on our App.? And it was in that moment the Lord had me looking around. How many places have you signed up to receive free rewards for being a frequent shopper, or how many places have you been carrying around that little plastic card that connects you as a member of the marketplace?

Many of you know that I'm a fan of Dr. John Maxwell and one of his stories is that about when he came to know Jesus as Lord and Savior of his life. He put a little pocket new testament in his shirt pocket. And yet I wonder how many people that attend church religiously, carry a Bible today whether a small pocket edition, or even have a Bible app on their phone?

You see the Holy Spirit has been working on myself a lot lately, with the question is Jesus in the middle of your life?

Today I am just wondering if someone asks you what your favorite verse is could you even quote it in it's entirety, or would you have to look it up?

Y'all have a great day.
Pastor Gery

08/24/2026

Crumb's of Tuckahoe August 24th, 2025.

This past weekend has been short of amazing. What do you do when a family member gets sick and cannot stay in the non-refundable accommodations that were planned in advance? For my bride and I it became a staycation while continuing to work. It became a place of solitude, while sharing Jesus with others. It became a life of doing more with less.

If you ever want to see just how comfortable you have become with what you have. Go stay in a place that gives you what they consider all the amenities needed for you while you are away from home.

And then ponder the notion that we are supposed to be just passing through this world on our return to heaven where we expect to spend eternity.

This morning once again I was so blessed to read in Proverbs and the title of the chapter for today had these two words: "Wisdom's Warning" and I just want to share a few of these verses that really stood out as I read this morning.

3. Wise people are builders -- they build families, businesses, communities. And through intelligence and insight their enterprises are established and endure.
Proverbs 24:3(TPT)

11. Go and rescue the perishing! Be their savior! Why would you stand back and watch them stagger to their death?
12. And why would you say, "But it's none of my business"? The one who knows you completely and judges your every motive is also the keeper of souls -- and not just yours! He sees through your excuses and holds you responsible for failing to help those whose lives are threatened.
Proverbs 24:11&12(TPT)

25. Speaking honestly is a sign of true friendship.
26. Go ahead, build your career and give yourself to your work. But if you put me first, you'll see your family built up!
Proverbs 24:25&26(TPT)

33&34. Professional work habits prevent poverty from becoming your permanent business partner. And- if you put off until tomorrow the work you could do today, tomorrow never seems to come.
Proverbs 24:33&34(TPT)

Y'all have a great week.
Pastor Gery

08/20/2026

Crumb's of Tuckahoe August 19th, 2026.

First let me apologize for not posting the Crumb's for a day, possibly longer. God has been so faithful in my life. Many of you know that Bethel has been in a frivolous lawsuit for a while now and over the past couple days I have been blessed to talk with attorneys in California, Texas, Ohio, Nashville and other towns in Tennessee. One of these conversations was so unbelievable that it almost took my breath away when I found out that this one attorney took the time out to discuss the evidence with me, and afterwards I found out that he has influence with the Supreme Court. I have received Emails from Texas and California once again and it seems that God is preparing something huge across this nation.
I have said before that the systems of this world that man has built, and removed God from are systematically being taken apart layer by layer. I cannot begin to express my gratitude that God would trust myself and Bethel with such an important assignment as exposing nationwide corruption being done in Jesus name. And we have what was called the perfect storm to thank for it.
I want to thank God for the ability to help save a wonderful woman who means so much to my bride and I from a corporation known for high pressure sales tactics. We were able to help her unwind a contract that would have bound her until she was 91. Thank you Jesus for laws and rules that protect individuals, especially widows and orphans.
And then there's the picture I used in this post. Obstacles to Grace. I was asked to prepare a conference talk and given the outline. I was able to write my rough draft, only to hear a whisper, "But what about prayer?" Y'all the hair on my arm stood up. My Holy Spirit radar was on full alert. I looked at the outline, I looked at my rough draft, crickets. There was nothing on either of the pages that remotely referenced our prayer life and whether we were doing it correctly. So I want to share with you what I was reading in my quiet time before I started posting this. ( And by the way, I am going to use my passion translation Bible for this reference. And maybe I'll share the rest of this confession in the next post.)

15. Lord God, unlock my heart, unlock my lips, and I will overcome with my joyous praise!
16. For the source of your pleasure is not in my performance or the sacrifices I might offer to you.
17. The fountain of your pleasure is found in the sacrifice of my shattered heart before you. You will not despise my tenderness as I bow down humbly at your feet.
18. Because you favor Zion, do what is good for her. Be the protecting wall around Jerusalem.
19. And when we are fully restored, you will rejoice and take delight in every offering of our lives as we bring our sacrifices of righteousness before you in love!
Psalm 51:15-19(TPT)

Being honorable to the Sr. Spiritual host that asked me to speak, I sent him a message today asking for permission to stray from the outline and be given the opportunity to share how Prayer is probably one of the Greatest Obstacles to Grace that we as believers need to understand at a deeper level. PERMISSION GRANTED!

So just to pose one question for you today, what does your prayer life look like? Is it you doing all the talking and never listening to what the Father wants to say? Is your prayer life a wish list for God to grant you your most recent desires and wants? Do you only pray when the heat is turned way up from the enemy? I heard Bill Johnson from Bethel Redding make a statement that most Christ followers have never heard. " When you accept Jesus as your Lord, you are immediately placed on the battlefield." John 10:10 the devil comes to kill steal and destroy.... This doesn't mean we give him more credit than he deserves, " but it does mean we keep him in the cross hairs long enough to pull the trigger."

Y'all have a great day
Pastor Gery

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