Prayer
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Matthew 17:1-9 (The Message) 1-3 Six days later, three of them saw that glory. Jesus took Peter and the brothers, James and John, and led them up a high mountain. His appearance changed from the inside out, right before their eyes. Sunlight poured from his face. His clothes were filled with light. Then they realized Read more
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A few years ago a prophetess visited our church from Italy. She said that she had a word from the Lord that “we had lifted up many prayers to God.” Until recently I was not encouraged by this word. I thought it was kind of vain. But recently I realized that if God knew how Read more
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There is a scale of leadership style I envision; on this scale most of us sit somewhere between the two ends, and at times we swing back and forth according to needs. The two ends are dependance upon themselves, and dependance on others. Good leaders work in a balance between the two swinging back and Read more
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Jesus frequently left the crowds and found a lonely place to pray. He wasn’t an introvert to be pitied. He was a man connected to God who should be emulated. Read more
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James 4:3-5 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy Read more
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James 4:3-5 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy Read more
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In my desperate pursuit of God’s manifest presence in my life these words have been the crux. “Search your heart for any unclean thing, then…” Read more
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“Elijah was a man just like us.” James 5:17 Read more
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“He had broken through a great deal of his own struggles with the emotional demands of life with God. And he knew himself, I think, very concretely as a result of the various demands that the life of prayer made on his humanity.” ~Abbot John Bamberger on Thomas Merton Read more
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Luke 9:23 “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.” In our Christian-American culture divided down the middle by partisan political views, I find that I am best described as a Christian Extremist. Let me elaborate… In light of the culture we live Read more
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