How to Make Ephesians 3:16-21 Your Personal Prayer Recently, I’ve been looking at some of the prayers in the Bible. I found so many prayers that people prayed themselves. Then, some prayers were prayed for a whole group of people publicly. Also, I found many prayers written in letters for Read more
How to Make the Prayer of David (in Psalm 20) Personal Recently, I had to get some new reading glasses. I went to the glasses shop and met with my favorite optician. Her name is Deborah, and she’s been helping me choose glasses for about 10 years. Our practice is Read more
Decorate Your Heart with Joy This Holiday Season The Thanksgiving decorations in the shed were staring me down. Bins full of pumpkins, pilgrims, and fall foliage. The argument inside my mind ensued. I don’t have to decorate for Thanksgiving this year. Perhaps I’ll skip Thanksgiving and start decorating for Read more
How to Give the Gift of Prayer for Christmas With all of the hustle and bustle of the season, it can be challenging to maintain a practical focus on the birth of Christ. Amid the parties, shopping, wrapping, baking, and fun activities, Christ can fade into the background if we Read more
An Apology Letter for Healing Your Church Hurt It seems like it was just yesterday. My younger brother was in trouble. It seemed he was regularly getting a spanking or having to atone for something he had done that day. I think I was about ten years old, and he Read more
How to Load up on the Good and Get Rid of the Bad Author Dave Ramsey tells the most intriguing story about his wife’s regular practices after she runs. Her name is Sharon. As an avid runner, Sharon has a schedule that she keeps and some habits that she follows. Read more
Recovering from Sexual Abuse: The Role of Prayer Recovering from sexual abuse is a deeply personal and challenging journey, often filled with a mix of emotions and complex stages of healing. For survivors, the process is particularly daunting when abuse occurs in spaces intended to provide safety, like medical settings. Read more
4 Ways the Holy Spirit REVEALS Truth to You and Me My mother gave them to us almost every Sunday in church. They were the coolest little pencil puzzle books. If you would turn your pencil to the side and brush it back and forth across the page, an image Read more
Turning 2 Chronicles 7:14 Into Your Personal Prayer I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we are living in some unusual and rather chaotic times right now. Consistently, we hear about hurricanes, floods, storms, and crime. Our communities, our churches, our families, our businesses, our cities, our states, our countries–all Read more
5 ways to pray when you feel STUCK in your life It was the strangest thing. After attending a wonderful event with some friends from our church, we walked to the parking lot to head back home. To our surprise, our car was hemmed in by hundreds of other cars. Read more
What Can You Do When Someone Pulls a Chair Out From Under You? It happened almost daily. Someone would come back to class after a bathroom break, prepare to sit in their yellow plastic chair and pull up to their desk, begin to sit down, and then… The Unexpected. No Read more
It was unbelievable. She had quit her job to be home with the kids when they were babies. The very same week, her husband lost his job. All of a sudden, they had a huge house and no income. And the utility bill was due. They only told a few Read more