If you are a Christian, your actions and your words should be reflections of God’s words that light up your heart. That is every Christian’s calling. There are those who are called to do this as their vocation–devote their lives to spreading God’s Good News. And they need our prayers. Our prayers of thanks, intercession,… Read More
Colossians 4:2 Pray all day
What does prayer look like? There is not just one way to pray, but as you live, you pray. Like Tim Tebow: down on one knee with head bowed. In a closet, alone with God. In a group without saying a word. Lying prone. Driving your car with your eyes wide open. Crying. Laughing. Angry.… Read More
Procrastination prayers
There comes a moment when praying becomes a form of spiritual procrastination. It’s time to stop praying and start acting. ~Mark Batterson, in A Circle of Prayer I write this in the middle of two posts about making prayer a way of life, praying without ceasing, about God’s response to our prayers–all taken from Colossians 4:2-4. At… Read More
Changing habitual motion
When you were a child you learned how to walk, talk, brush your hair, put on a shirt—how to do all of the things that you take for granted today. If you were tie your shoelaces right now, would you have to think about it? Or would your fingers move as though they had been… Read More
Is your Monday morning a drag?
And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are called to live in peace. And always be thankful. ~ Colossians 3:15 (New Living Translation) Let the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other, in step with each other. None of this… Read More
Mature Conscience
Awakened Christians possess a true working conscience. 1. Remorse. It comes from the flesh, and it doesn’t work before the event to keep you out of trouble, it only makes you feel bad after the fact. It is selfish and self-centered; it never gets to the cross, never gets to freedom. 2. Awakened spirit conscience.… Read More
Do you know how God designed you?
“What you are after is truth from the inside out. Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life.” (Psalm 51:6, The Message) A brown-headed cowbird egg will always produce a cowbird, never a song sparrow. It can be a healthy, growing cowbird or a sickly one that is full of disease, but it will… Read More
