PRAYERFULNESS

  • A Persistent Pursuit

    Daily Readings: Matthew 14 and Psalm 14 As opposition to Jesus mounted among the religious and political rulers, Jesus received the tragic news of His cousin John’s death at the hands of King Herod. Immediately, struck by the harsh reality of the dangerous path He was on, and needing to process what this meant for

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  • The Privilege of Prayer

    My apologies to those on the email distribution list. For some reason the links to the Scripture readings from the email are malfunctioning. I’m trying to get to the bottom of it. In the meantime, if you want the convenience of clicking through to the Bible, please click on the large print title above (“The

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  • Prayerful forgiveness

    Daily Readings: James 5:13-18 and Mark 11:12-25 James 5 appears to indelibly connect prayer with confession and forgiveness. Perhaps this is a recognition that while physical wellness is important to the Lord, spiritual wellness is even more so. The Lord cares deeply when our bodies are in pain, and even more deeply when our relationship

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  • Prayerful intimacy

    Daily Readings: James 5:13-18 and Matthew 11:25-30 As we consider our call to prayerfulness throughout this week, it would be easy to fall into the trap of thinking that prayer is always and only about asking great things from God and seeing God do great and miraculous things in response to our great faith. Instead,

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  • Intimate Prayerfulness

    This week we come to our final section of James 5 and consider the life of prayerfulness. Daily Readings: James 5:13-18; 1 Kings 17:1 and 1 Kings 18:41-46 The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. James 5:16 To restate the above in the context of James 4, we might say: Out of

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