Wednesday is for Prayer Pray that my laptop computer would be “healed”! I did something crazy, (I don’t know how or what) and the screen now is oriented sideways and only rights itself when it is plugged into an external monitor. Until it get fixed, I will be spending a lot more time at the … More Technology! I Love it Until It Breaks.
Wednesday is for Prayer On the road today, with little time. But yesterday I read Oswald Chambers, and My Utmost for His Highest and found this worthy thought to pass on. May all your thoughts and prayers lead you to the Savior, by faith. Insight, Not Emotion I have to lead my life in faith, without … More An Older Voice on What it Means to Live by Faith rather than Emotion
Tuesday is Preaching Prayer: At Home in the Prayer Chamber Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom … More Prayer Should Be Continuous, Preaching but Intermittent
Tuesday is for Preaching I was preparing a series of messages for radio broadcast on 94.1 FM WGFA in Watseka, IL and thought the outline of the series might be of some value to readers here. The title of the series was THE UNSATISFYING PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS and it was a four message exposition of … More Haggai and the Unsatisfying Pursuit of Happiness
Wednesday is for Prayer When the things that we pray for are dominated by financial need and the restoration of health, whether ours or a family members, when the things for which we thank God are filled with the answers to such prayers and the joy we have in those answers, we are not participating in the … More Our Prayers are Weak, Selfish, and Powerless
Wednesday is for Prayer A long day of travel, editing, meetings, and preparation for preaching ahead. I need the prayer of the saints. Pray that: My eyes would see all the corrections that must be made to the galley proofs of Picking a President: Or Any Other Elected Official. That the publisher would understand all … More Nothing (that lasts) Happens without Prayer
Wednesday is for Prayer “Life is well designed. Men and women grow old so that someone will be wise enough to teach the young.” (Lord Mhoram in the novel, Lord Foul’s Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson, page 279 in paperback edition) We are wise to be cautious when we find “truth” in fiction but novels, even … More The Good Design of Life
Tuesday is for Preaching All over the country, pastors are preparing two very different messages this week. Many will be preaching 3 to 7 messages in the span of three days. Some will be preaching on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. One set of messages will be filled with mourning over sin and … More Prayer for the Nation’s Preachers
Friday is for Heart Songs “Resolved, to act, in all respects, both speaking and doing, as if there were none as grotesque as I, and as if I had committed the same sins, or had the same infirmities or failings as others; and that I will let the knowledge of their failings promote nothing but … More Resolved: To Know and Own My Sinfulness
Prayer is a constant battle. And that is what makes it so hard–its constancy. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, speaking of the constancy of waiting in prison made the following observation in prison that I think applies equally well to prayer: “Great battles … for more: Why I Hate Prayer.
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