[Please join me in praying for the Church on Sundays this year.] Lost-Seeking God, Thank you for the true Church, your Body, who is filled by the fullness of Jesus Christ. Thank you for Holy Spirit’s leading in the Church and your People who are seeking to hear from you.Continue Reading
[Please join me in praying for the Church on Sundays this year.] Renewing and Protecting God, Today we pray for your Church – specifically that she would be protected from the evils of this world and from further division within her. Because she is in you, your true Church can’tContinue Reading
[Please join me in praying for the Church on Sundays this year.] “…Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, andContinue Reading
“As [Paul and Timothy] traveled from town to town, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey. So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.” (Acts 16:4-5 NIV) We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightlyContinue Reading
“What we were created at the depths of our souls to need is only the Presence of God. It is the answer as Jesus is the answer….Our questions and complaints will never find individual answers (even as Job’s questions were never fully answered). The only Answer is the dangerous, disturbing,Continue Reading
[Please join me in praying for the Church on Sundays this year.] “For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.” (Romans 11:29 ESV) God, Where do I begin to thank you for all the phenomenal things you did in the arts camp this week? I remember camper faces,Continue Reading
[Please join me in praying for the Church on Sundays this year.] “We’re trying to sell Jesus and eternity with God to people who are living for the moment. They don’t even believe in heaven and hell. We need to ask – do you need peace? do you need healing?Continue Reading
[Please join me in praying for the Church on Sundays this year.] God of Love, You are the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star. You have invited us thirsty ones to come to you and drink deeply of the free gift of the water of lifeContinue Reading
[Let us join together today to pray for the Church – each of us! – the Beloved – as we hear the words of our Loving God to us.] Listen, my dearest darling, you are so beautiful—you are beauty itself to me! Your eyes are like gentle doves behind yourContinue Reading
[Please join me in praying for the Church on Sundays this year. This post is adapted from a post from July 7, 2009.] I’ve been doing some musing (as usual) about living life in our times and in the midst of the huge geo-social-political changes going on. I’ve heard itContinue Reading