Last night I finally started reading Paul E. Miller’s A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World. After finishing chapter 2 I put the book down and realized that something Miller just said to me was going to change things. Here’s the paragraph.
“…don’t hunt for a feeling in prayer. Deep in our psyches [...]
A while back I confessing to Steve McCoy that I often feel like I’m a better Deist than Christian. He knew exactly what I meant. I was having prayer issues.
A Deist doesn’t believe God is actively involved in the world, but that he created the cosmos to run on its own and walked away. In [...]
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 [...]
Are you one of those people who find prayer difficult? I am. It has always been easier for me to spend hours reading, studying and journaling, than to spend less time on my knees. I know some who experience the opposite, but most of my friends share my weakness. And it is a weakness. There [...]
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.
