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Crazy faith and foolishness
My journey in prayer and Scripture currently has me reading prayerfully through the Old Testament narratives beginning in 1 Samuel. The prayerful journey is to think in terms of spiritual warfare. 1 Samuel 14 is a story that draws me because of the contrast between Jonathan and Saul. I remember youth speakers really embellishing this story when I was in…
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Pray for the persecuted church
Every week I spend time praying for the persecuted church around the world. Here is a great video on Egypt.
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Thanks. I needed that.
Mark Batterson in his book The Grave Robber put it this way: Sometimes we need someone to silly-slap us! We need some tough love applied. Probably 25 years or more ago I sat at breakfast with a man I wanted to learn from. I was new in ministry and a habit I was establishing at the time was trying to learn from…
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Dare the devil
Dorothy Sayers said this: The people who crucified Jesus never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore — on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium. We have very efficiently pared the claws…
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The word “IMPOSSIBLE”
Jesus looked at them carefully and said, “It’s impossible for human beings. But all things are possible for God.” (Matt. 19:26) “The word impossible does not belong in our vocabulary. In God’s ears, it’s an expletive. And it’s the primary reason we don’t experience the miraculous. We let our logical assumptions trump our theological beliefs. And before we know it, our…
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Spooky action at a distance
I was grateful to receive a copy of The Grave Robber by Mark Batterson this past weekend at a conference. Sunday morning as I was looking through a new stack of books, this one was in the stack and the Spirit spoke specifically: “I want to teach you about miracles now.” I love Batterson’s writing. He can tell stories so incredibly…
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Praying the Lord’s Prayer… in reverse
NT Wright’s book Simply Good News challenges the reader to look at how we pray. We often pray the Lord’s Prayer in reverse. I will be looking at Wright’s analysis on “praying as good news people” in my message on Sunday. His contention is the Lord’s Prayer helps us with priorities in prayer. They are sections that can be slapped together…
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Lord, let us DREAM!
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