Tag: Prayer

  • The night watch

    Lately I have been chalking up these middle of the night sessions to “old age.” “I must be getting old. I’m getting up more and I’m not falling right back to sleep.”

  • The place of quiet

    When we will shut up, God will show up.

  • The silence and the solitude

    Dallas Willard says that practicing solitude with silence are the most important spiritual disciplines for people today, especially pastors. In our busy, noisy world we need to “unhook” and get away in order to be alone and be ourselves with our Lord.

  • Die. Change.

    Today this thought came to me: “Die, then change.”

  • The slow walk to maturity — ABSORB the Word

    Don’t just “read” the Word. Don’t just “study” the Word. As believers, we are invited into a level of engagement with the Scriptures that doesn’t have any other parallel. Why settle for so much less? 

  • Slow walk to maturity — filling our minds with Christ

    Christ bids us come and die. That dying process is brutal because we like how it is in our lives.

  • The slow walk to spiritual maturity

    Every morning I try to make my habit be a prayer. As quickly as possible when I’m awake I focus on either Psalm 23 or the Lord’s Prayer. 

  • What happened when I went to the mosque

    I wish I knew how to format this across all the social media formats so it would like those crazy “click bait” stories that say something like… “What he saw when he opened the door shocked him…” Something like that.

  • The blessedness of his presence

    In my reading list, I moved from the end of Romans 8 to the beginning of Psalm 23. 

  • Every day prayer

    As I have moved through my “ancient wells” list, I find this verse calling me to ask three key questions of accountability.