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God’s Path to Self-Care
Is the popular idea of self-care biblical? After all, many verses urge us to deny ourselves. Jesus said, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me” (Matthew 16:24). It is hard … Continue reading
Praying for Wes
Recently my friend Wes Adams died. In some ways, of all the ways death has made itself known recently, his death has moved me the most. Teckla and I got to know Wes when I took a teaching position at … Continue reading
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Tagged Intercession, Prayer, Revival, Wes Adasms
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What I Don’t Know
Some may look at the title of this blog and decide they have no time for such a long read. Another reason to pass on this post is that it is an unpost in some ways. Instead of sharing profound … Continue reading
Rain, Seeds, and Prayer
You see the rain differently when you have seeds in the ground. The springs rains here in Myrtle Point are different than those in the Midwest. Here the rains can last all day, sometimes for several days. Lumpy gray clouds … Continue reading
Praying Large
In a crisis our world contracts. I can best compare this to a time I almost passed out. I had just gotten over a cold and decided to hit the weight room for a hard work-out. I had been sitting … Continue reading
Weak Things
Sometimes I hate being a Christian. I grew up on Tarzan, Robin Hood, and Zorro, men of action stories. Bad guys were, well, bad and always got what is coming to them. Heroes did stuff and were men of few … Continue reading
He Came to Himself
In a hot mess of inarticulate father-love, I sputtered, “But you love Jesus!” My son had been explaining how he wasn’t sure he was still a Christian. I had been challenging him to return to Jesus. My declaration felt pathetic. … Continue reading
“Suddenly”
This word broke my heart. I had been slogging through the sad stories of the kings of Israel and Judah. Again and again they rejected God and worshiped idols. Sometimes they even brought the idols into the temple. Some kings … Continue reading
God is About To . . .
Thus begins the spiritual meth, the prophetic word, that hooks us on hope, but then brings us crashing down into spiritual depression and disillusionment. The scope of the prophecy can range from personal to global. God is about to pour … Continue reading
Praying Prepositions
I have been praying prepositions—the prepositions that express different, perhaps essential, aspects of a believer’s relationship with God. I have discovered some harder to pray than others. I begin by reading Scripture that expresses truths about God going before us, … Continue reading