Question – “How long should I pray for something or someone?
Answer – That’s a good question! Sometimes we think that because God knows everything, including what we’re going to pray for, we should only pray for something once or twice and leave it at that. We may even think that anything more would be a [...]
Archive for December, 2008
How Long?
Posted in Christian life, prayer, questions on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Prayer Request
Posted in Dark Providence, my life, prayer on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Please pray for us – my wife especially – as her father (my father-in-law) died yesterday.
He was 74 and had been undergoing chemotherapy treatments for a brain tumor. By God’s providence, the entire family got see and visit with him on Christmas.
We grieve, but not as those who have no hope (1 Thess. 4:13).
Thank you [...]
Merry Christmas!
Posted in Jesus Christ, Miscellaneous, my life on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Merry Christmas!
We had a Christmas Eve service at Immanuel last night – an excellent one, by the way. We decided to go ahead with it and praise God for those who braved the elements. I put together a service of “readings and carols” as it’s known. Scripture readings are alternated with Christmas carols in such [...]
The Tipping Point
Posted in my life, providence, sovereignty of God on December 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As far as our weather has concerned, I’ve reached the tipping point. I probably reached it several days ago. It started snowing last Saturday (8 days ago) and hasn’t really stopped.
Snow is great, don’t get me wrong, but only for a couple of days. After that it’s a nuisance and a major interrupter of life [...]
Barack Obama and Rick Warren
Posted in Ministry, politics, prayer on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
President-Elect Barack Obama chose Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Community Church, to give the invocation at his inauguration on January 20th, 2009.
A few words of advice to fellow-Pastor Warren (he probably won’t read this, but here goes anyway):
Make sure to pray “in Jesus name” of “through Jesus Christ our Lord.” A Christian, especially a member [...]
Great Joy
Posted in Jesus Christ, Joy on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This last Sunday, due to bad weather, we cancelled our worship service (sort of).
We officially called it off, but by the time we did there were between 15 and 20 people in the building – mostly musicians and those hearty souls who didn’t get the word in time.
We decided to have an impromptu (and brief) [...]
Book Review – “Boomtown”
Posted in Book Report, Books on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Boomtown is not a book I would normally read. It’s fiction designed for younger teens, and given the fact that I’m not a younger teen and don’t read a lot of fiction, it didn’t sound like a good match. I was wrong.
Nowen N. Particular (aka Marty Longe’) tells the tale of Reverend Arthur Button and [...]
Amen, A.W.!
Posted in Bible, Quotes on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A.W. Tozer wrote,
An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning [...]
Marley’s Message to Scrooge
Posted in R.C. Sproul on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
R.C. Sproul absolutely nails it in his article called “Marley’s Message to Scrooge” on the Ligonier website. There are quite a few people who take the “bah-humbug!” stance, especially at this time of year. R.C. thinks they need to think again. So do I. It’s worth a read.
