A number of people have joined me in reading through the Bible in a year together in 2011. Every week, I will simply be leaving a small post where you all can leave responses of how God has been speaking to you through reading the Scriptures each day. This gives us the unique opportunity to …
Prayer video (via Granger)
A friend passed along this gritty video on prayer produced by Granger Community Church. I appreciated the way that it presented the honesty, relationship, and listening aspects of prayer in a fairly creative and engaging way. What do you think?
Jesus Comes After Sick People
Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” (Luke 5:31-32) I am glad that Jesus comes after sick people. In Luke 5, Jesus pursues a man with leprosy, a paralyzed man, a social outcast who collects …
How is God Speaking to You? (week 12)
A number of people have joined me in reading through the Bible in a year together in 2011. Every week, I am leaving a simple post here on the blog where you all can leave responses of how God has been speaking to you through reading the Scriptures each day. This gives us the unique …
Bounds on Preaching and Prayer
I came across this quotation from E. M. Bounds when reading Richard Foster's book, Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home. Bounds is one of our preeminent writers on prayer from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today, there is not always the same emphasis on prayer as a source of power for ministry that …
