My challenge for this month has been to pray for someone I don’t like every day for April. Here’s what happened: I made this list of goals back in December, and back in December I knew EXACTLY who I didn’t like enough to subject them to daily prayers. However, as March came to a close […]
Continue Reading“Do we dare less than God’s people in Scripture? What has happened to us? Don’t we trust the Lord enough to tell our Maker how we really feel?” The Rock that is Higher One thing I have noticed in my prayer life is that oftentimes I do not pray  how I speak. In […]
Continue ReadingLast night was a good night for me in terms of prayer. For the staff worship time, we had big pieces of paper where people wrote down things to pray for and stuff, but I couldn’t get my brain to focus on praying. So I sat quietly for a few minutes and put my hands […]
Continue ReadingAt the beginning of the summer, we had a campfire. A group of us sat around it, waiting for someone to come start it. We used our “superpowers” and were not entirely shocked when it didn’t start. A few hours later I wondered why we never prayed over it. Today we moved the bleachers. There […]
Continue ReadingI gossip. A lot. So much that is disgusts me. It’s something I’ve always struggled with, but I’ve let it not become a big deal because instead I focus on the things I don’t do – drink alcohol, do drugs, or have sex. Over and over today there has been a huge brick weighing my […]
Continue ReadingFORGIVENESS, REAL. Real forgiveness means looking steadily at the sin, the sin that is left over without any excuse, after all allowances have been made, and seeing it in all its horror, dirt, meanness, and malice, and nevertheless being wholly reconciled to the man who has done it. That, and only that, is forgiveness, and […]
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