Just like an athlete must train all the time in order to be ready when their competition comes, so we must practice the habit of prayer if we are going to connect with God throu...
read moreIf at the heart of prayer is connection with God, rather than wish fulfilment, then what stands in the way of that connection? We need to examine how we are praying; religiously...
read more“You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.”...
read moreThe way we pray reflects our theology; it shows most clearly what we think and believe about God. When we pray is God our genie in the bottle obligated to fulfill our wishes, or...
read moreMany of us have a vague sense that praying is something we should be doing as Christians but most of us struggle with the task of prayer. In part, that is because we don’t...
read moreIn the same way we need to be intentional when pursuing a new goal, so we need to be intentional when it comes to growing as a disciple of Jesus — it doesn’t happen by accident....
read moreWe all go through a time of frustration and weakening strength. We need to continue to enjoy God’s grace and remember that it is him who makes us stand. In Christ we do not need...
read moreOnce we respond to God’s invitation for a relationship with him we need to deal with our past. All of us have sin to deal with so we practice ‘purging’. We confess what we have ...
read moreJesus has been crushed under the wheel of the world, but this doesn’t mean he’s lost. Rather, it mean’s he’s changed the game and because of that we have...
read moreToo often we are given the impression that God is really hard to find or at least hard to please. But the truth is God has invited us to seek him with the promise of finding him...
read moreWe’re snapping selfies of our latest outfits to see if we look good, we instagram our dinner, and we toast with a drink in our hand — could these simple things that ...
read moreImagine what it would be like to get good at the way of life Jesus has been describing in his sermon! Man, we would be so holy, it would be great! Imagine what people would thin...
read moreBlood is thicker than water is a message that some of us have had drilled into us. That seems to be the natural bent — look after your own. What about outsiders though? Ho...
read more‘Blessed’ is a term used in our culture today from winning an award to getting a ride on a cold day. When the religious use the term it has the sense that God has do...
read moreFinally! they’re going to get what’s coming to them. Or, are they? How can there be both justice and mercy? And, what does that mean for us as the people of God?
read moreThere will be times when we’re down, but that doesn’t mean we’re out. God will pick us up again and set us on our feet. The key is to hang on and let him do hi...
read moreCan a situation, or life itself, get so bad that it’s okay to put aside our Christian convictions? If not, what is the key to staying faithful under such intense pressure?...
read moreIn the face of injustice our temptation is to rage, grab the levers of power, even get violent for the right reasons. But, the politics of the cross point us to a different syst...
read moreIs God one of your priorities? Or, is he the one who sets your priorities? We need to let go of everything else in order to firmly hold on to him. It’s only by this sort o...
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