Awesome Worship Experience Last Night
It has been some time since I said that regarding a Sunday night service. Last night was one of the most uplifting worship experiences I have been a part of in some time. It wasn’t that we had hundreds and hundreds of people because we didn’t. It was that everything that happened last night felt […]
God is listening
God is listening, sounds like something your mother told you when you were young. More than motherly advice, the truth of that statement gives us hope. Because God is listening and because he cares and is so powerful, we can be sure he is up to something in this world. The vast majority of competing […]
Hannah’s Story
I love the story of Hannah. In light of Mother’s Day coming up I think it is such a great story. Antagonized barren woman prays to God for a son. Corrupt priest who named his first son “tadpole” can’t even recognize praying when he sees it. He accuses her of being drunk but no…she is […]
Praying Against God’s Best Interest – Part 2
I didn’t want to leave the impression in the last post that God only cares about us in a spiritual sense. I still pray for health. I still pray for loved ones to be healed of their illness. I still pray for safety for my family. But that is not all I pray for. I […]
Praying Against God’s Best Interests
If the top 5 most spiritually shaping moments of my life were times of great difficulty why is it I often pray against those very things from happening? The death of loved ones, accidents, and health difficulties are things most of us pray against regularly and yet when most Christians are asked what their most […]
Gulfcoast Getaway 2010 in the Books
Every year I look forward to going to Gulfcoast Getaway, a college rally in Panama City, FL. This year didn’t let me down. I had never heard Earl Lavender speak before. You can tell everything he said came from a richness of study and reflection over years of teaching, preaching, and living Christianly. Randy Harris […]
Gospel of John 17:3 – Jesus Christ in the Third Person
I found these words from N.T. Wright fascinating even though I am not sure I agree. He is talking about the start of Jesus’ lengthy prayer in John 17 where Jesus refers to himself in the third person as “Jesus the Messiah”: “Nor, we may suppose, is John remembering it all without having prayed through […]
Effective Evangelism – The Difference Between Conversion and Subversion
One of the things that gets people in trouble when it comes to evangelism is trying to subert people rather than convert them. The word subvert comes from a combination of the words sub – from beneath and the Latin vertere – to turn. The word convert is similar but rather than turning from beneath […]
Role of Prayer and the Holy Spirit in Acts
I love the book of Acts. It is action packed and so inspiring on how driven those men were to do the will of God. I love that we get so much great information from it on the church, church leadership, fellowship, giving, and all kinds of wonderful examples that we can follow today. As […]
How to Use the Bible
This link was sent to me by Philip and I am glad he did. This is a helpful list on how to and not to use scripture – link.