On Tuesday, Nathan wrote a post on how he has learned to be thankful, rather than jealous and grouchy, about other churches in his city. But what about when we feel we have cause to be grouchy? Maybe we hear that those churches are watering down the gospel, obscuring it by majoring on preferences/tradition, or…
Photo by Naassom Azevedo on Unsplash On January 21, 2018, Dr. Lawless preached Luke 22:39-46 at Foothills Baptist Church. He gave four points: If we follow Jesus, then prayer should be in our DNA. If we don’t pray, we lack integrity in carrying the name of Christ. Our Lord prayed on a regular/consistent basis. We need to pray…
Father, thank you that you are a God of grace – you give to us what we believe we deserve when in fact we don’t. Thank you that you have saved, rescued, protected us from so many forces of evil around us and you have saved us from ourselves. We wrongly believe we can handle…
Photo by Steinar Engeland on Unsplash. Listen to the clip here. ALSO, here’s another resource entitled 12 Ways to Love Your Wayward Child. Great post.
Ron is constantly pumping out great, biblical content — this is simple and yet, if taken seriously could be a game-changer for husbands, wives and consequently, their marriage. Thank you Ron! Dear Lord, Please help him to learn and manage healthy balance – between work, family, and play. Allow him to know his full potential…
Prayer together remains a vital means of God’s ongoing grace in the Christian life and for our communities. In Habits of Grace Mathis gives 5 principles when praying with others I found helpful and wanted to pass on. Make it regular. Let pray become a regular part of the landscape of your life with family and friends. Start…
Prayer together remains a vital means of God’s ongoing grace in the Christian life and for our communities. In Habits of Grace Mathis gives 5 principles when praying with others I found helpful and wanted to pass on. Make it regular. Let pray become a regular part of the landscape of your life with family and friends.…
This was such a GREAT post. I am guilty of doing many of these…repeatedly. Father, help me to be a more faithful person of prayer as I realize my absolute need for you. Original post by Chuck Lawless can be viewed here. Just thinking out loud about some “strange” ways that many Christians pray .…
What does it mean to meditate on Scripture? Tim Keller in his latest book Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God says, “to meditate is to ask yourself questions about the truth” and “seeks to use the mind intensely” (148). Here are some questions to help your mind think deeper about the things of God and…
Augustine taught that all people seek happiness, and they attach themselves to things they believe will make them happy. That attachment is experienced as love. The main human problem, however, is that, because of sin, we misidentify what will make us happy. As we have discussed before, the result is disordered loves – loves ‘out…
Theology Along the Way 