Tag Archives: pray

When we pray, we are intimately connected to God, and while we ask for His help, ask for others’ frailties and quietly listen for His answers, we are one. Prayer is a complicated business. Sometimes when we think of it and talk about it, it seems it sometimes generates more ...

Powerful. That’s what I had always heard people claim prayer to be. As I was growing up, I always knew how important it was to pray. I knew that praying made me feel better if something was wrong, and I was certain that praying was pleasing to God. But I ...

Don’t get me wrong–I love kids, but those ages 10 to 13 plagued by hormonal surges, a sordid home life, and a propensity to tune-out authority figures, light a fire under my prayer life.  So it was, when I walked into an inner-city school to substitute for the P.E. teacher, ...

Did you know Billy Graham recently issued a warning for believers in America?  It is more of a reminder of what God’s word has already stated: prepare for persecution. Many of us in this blessed United States have no idea what it really means to be persecuted. We don’t understand ...

Everyone has times when they doubt God’s promises for their lives. There are times though, when doubt becomes chronic and casts a dark shadow over our faith. Doubt looms over us like a powerful force that chips away all that God has promised us. Where does this kind of doubt ...