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Prevailing prayer begins in the waiting
I remember a story from one of my mentors in ministry when he was teaching some Bible classes overseas. He had some time away for prayer, so he had noticed some prayer caves used for meditation by a Buddhist temple. (I believe this happened in a Buddhist country.) My mentor hiked off into the hills one day and…
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Letter to a dead church
In writing to Sardis, there is an interesting note. Craig Keener points out in his commentary on Revelation that the two harshest rebukes in the seven letters of Revelation were to churches where even the cities don’t exist anymore.
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Change. Immediate. Now.
Too much life online. It has to stop. Now.
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The call to prayer — 2017
It is time to press on to a new level of prayer.
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Lead us not into temptation
One of the key lines out of the prayer Jesus taught was simple. “Don’t let us be tested.”
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Spiritual leprosy
Prayerlessness in the body of Christ is akin to leprosy. I learned some things about leprosy from Paul Brand, a surgeon to lepers. He says that in leprosy the nerves stop functioning properly, no longer sending signals of pain to the brain. Lepers will begin to lose fingers and toes in accidents because they cannot feel pain when they are…
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Turns out the Church will be just fine
Christmas is that powerful reminder that an event that goes completely unnoticed by the world raises up what is eternal. Long after Caesar Augustus. Long after Herod. There is still the Kingdom of God.
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In this is is love
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. (1 John 4:9) Merry Christmas
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He has come
The beauty of the Incarnation of Christ sweeps me away in the Scripture reading during Advent. He has come to deal with the enemy. He has come to engage the battle. Christ’s coming set the battlefield. A baby born for battle. And as a result, WE are free. “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has…
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Christmas. Really.
Christ has come. He is God with us. No matter what part of the world, no matter the political mood, no matter the condition of the country, he is God with us.
