Wednesday is for Prayer The Hebrew word for murmur sounds a lot like a murmuring crowd. The ancient Israelites had a big problem with contentment in God. They murmured against their leaders almost endlessly. But God pointed out numerous times that their real murmur was against the living God (cf. 1 Samuel 8 for one … More The Murmuring of Our Discontent
Wednesday is for Prayer “You’ve heard it said that to be victorious in a military battle you must have the ‘most boots on the ground.’ Conversely, to be victorious in a spiritual battle, you must have the most ‘knees on the ground.’” ….. The character Eli to his young pastor friend Elmo in the novel … More Getting Knees on the Ground for the Spiritual Battles Ahead
Wednesday is for Prayer I love New Year’s day. No one has any expectations for me and I have the whole day to read, and pray, and think, take a walk if I like, get on the treadmill if I like. It is marvelous. Today I had five virtually uninterrupted hours at the church as … More The Blazing Center of a Missional Christian’s Life
Wednesday is for Prayer For the last two weeks the blogosphere has been saturated with a controversy concerning plagiarism among some of the most well known pastors in America. There have been accusations about a whole culture of ghost-writing, plagiarism and fraud authors among the “celebrity pastor class” of the nation. I’m not sure … More Choosing Truth Over Talent
Wednesday is for Prayer Christianity Today reports that 20% of non-Christians in the United States and Canada (at a minimum 13.5 million people) say they do not ‘personally know’ any Christians. —Christianity Today, p. 17, October 2013 Two thoughts: If that doesn’t break your heart, repent and pray that it would. If that does break … More Are You a Disciple? Let’s Pray that Way.
Wednesday is for Thinking Technology is killing your church. Rather, it is killing the soul of your people who are the church. Your people are like mine. They are addicted to technology like crack cocaine. They don’t think they can live without it. They are never far from it and can’t imagine a day without … More Technology is Killing Your Church
Wednesday is for Prayer All around the country, pastors and church leaders are thinking through and preparing their Christmas season of messages as others are preparing for Thanksgiving. My message this week is on the birth announcement of the angel Gabriel to Zachariah that he and Elizabeth’s late-born, miracle child was going to figure prominently … More When Doubt is Sin: A Thanksgiving Eve Meditation
Wednesday is for Prayer Just completed a long elder’s meeting in my home. How I love these men who have given of their time and talent to the shepherding of Christ’s Church. Tonight we were joined by our campus pastor and worship pastor, two other godly men of whom we are so privileged to have … More Men Who Bless Every Church they Enter
Wednesday is for Prayer 2 O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save? 3 Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are … More Living in a World Gone Mad
Wednesday is for Prayer Kevin was only five years old when his father carried him up the stairs to bed. As he crawled under the covers, the two of them folded their hands to say their prayers before falling asleep. Little Kevin was so tired, he shifted into automatic pilot and prayed … More Learning How to Pray Again
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