I am working through a lot of issues related to prayer this week, and will post a few quotes and a couple conclusions of my own later.
In prayer there is not only an outgoing of the soul to God, in acts of faith, love and confidence, but there is an actual communication from God to [...]
Fervourless prayer has no heart in it; it is an empty thing, an unfit vessel. Heart, soul, and life, must find place in all real praying. Heaven must be made to feel the force of this crying unto God.
Paul was a notable example of the man who possessed a fervent spirit of prayer. His petitioning [...]
This spring marked the first time in 13 years where I wasn’t classified as either obese or overweight. I’m now in the high end of the “normal” range. It hasn’t happened quickly for me. It took a year for me to loose 40 lbs through smarter eating and running. It’s a pretty comprehensive lifestyle change, [...]
This was from last Sunday. After church the fam spent the day together, lunch, walking through town, Starbucks (here) the park, Home Group and finally home. A great day and the kids had a blast. So here’s our son, Elias, downing his hot chocolate, and Katherine holding Madeline at my “second office.”
I signed up with Twitter over a year ago, but didn’t start using it until April 26th, 2008 at 4:40pm. Twitter is huge right now, and even with its more frequent down time lately, it doesn’t seem to be discouraging people from jumping on board. But a lot of people who aren’t using ask me, [...]
I am the Lead Pastor of Redeemer Fellowship, husband to Jen, Dad to Katherine, Elias and Madeline - and the short, bald guy in Starbucks writing in a Moleskine journal.
