I recently read a story about a TV preacher who said that you should never ask God for something more than once. To pray for something even twice, he said, was proof of a lack of faith and meant that God wouldn’t respond positively to the request. When we ask God for something and he […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The disciples specifically asked Jesus to teach them how to pray, so what does he tell them? Take a look at Luke 11:1-4 (I’ve typed out the NASB). An introduction to the Lord’s Model Prayer: Revelation of Prayer: “after he had finished” praying (Luke 11:1): We often don’t realize that prayer is a practice in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had several people tell me last week (November 20) how meaningful my invocation prayer was for them, so I told them I would write it out for future reference: Father, we love you, and we thank you very much for the love that you have demonstrated for us; that while we were yet sinners, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Six Aspects of Prayer: a service of prayer at The Well, October 23, 2011. Today is going to be a little different. Our focus is on prayer, and we will look at six aspects of prayer that you may have not considered before today. Oswald Chambers once said that, “prayer does not equip us for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
May this Father’s Day be the best. Leadership is influence, so men, lead your children to love God and follow in your example. Pursue Christ and allow him to change you into the dad you need to be for your kids, and the kingdom’s sake.
No one has it all together in their marriage. We are like pilgrims on a journey trying to figure out how to survive and thrive in this most important human relationship. The point is that God has called us to love our wives like Christ loves the church (Ephesians 5:25-26). The point is that it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Being a father, my goal is to be the best I can be, at least, be the kind of father that God wants me to be. I often fail like all of us, but I thought it might be interesting to think about Jesus’ thoughts about the Father. Jesus said, “This is how you should […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The greatest commandment in Scripture is this: “Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength” (Deuteronomy 6:5). If we go back a couple of verses we read, “So that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We are in the book of James, still chapter one, and we already looked at the first half of the first chapter. I thought I would give a brief outline and overview of where we are going. James addresses what a mature Christian looks like: He is Patient in Testing (James 1) Trials on the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The final chapter in the book of Acts brings Paul to Rome (Acts 28:14), it was probably the early spring of AD 61. Some brethren heard they were coming (Acts 28:15) and they came to visit Paul from as far away as the Market of Appius (43 miles away) and the Three Inns (or Taverns […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
"The biggest deterrent to growth in most churches is lack of confidence in God's supernatural power to grow His church. We are obsessed with our own responsibility to find resources for growth. When our natural resources seem limited, our vision shrinks and we accept mediocrity. We can't grow the church, but God can! We don't have the resources, but He does! "
(Ken Hemphill, Revitalizing the Sunday Morning Dinosaur)
"However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace." (Acts 20:24)
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