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A Little Bit on Praying

So I asked God to show me some things about prayer. Last night in the sermon I got something that crept up on me like a gentle breeze in the grass and then hit me like a tidal wave. Let me put some context around it. In the Bible when Jesus prayed “not my will...

You Are What You Eat

As I was reading a devotional (The One Year “Hearing His Voice” Devotional by Chris Tiegreen), I came across words that sparked me to start writing this post. The scripture reference was from Ezekiel when God told Ezekiel to eat the scroll. God wants us to...

In Order of Difficulty

When I was a kid I learned all kinds of math. The older I got the harder the math became. Sometimes with other things I could get the hard stuff out of the way first and then do the easy stuff, so I wished that with math I could do the hard stuff first so that it got...

The Tugging of Your Faith

Yesterday morning at church we had another pastor speaking for us. He was teaching from Hebrews 11 about Abraham and faith. He talked about how people of faith embrace God’s promises (Hebrews 11:13). He told us the Greek for “embrace” there means a...

Bad News Before the Good News

Sometimes in order for you to understand why something is good news, you need to understand the bad news. Sometimes people, even including Christians, don’t fully realize why the Gospel is literally The Good News. Your sin offends God. That is what you need to...

Prayer

One of the topics of the sermon yesterday was Jesus teaching His disciples how to pray (Luke 11:1-4). This got me thinking about prayer and how many of us aren’t nearly as good at it as we should be. We don’t pray enough. Sometimes we don’t even have...