A Breath of Fresh (Pr)-ayer! (Part 1)
I’ve been frustrated and confused about prayer for a while. A few questions rattling around in my head…. -If God already knows what I want and need…and if I trust Him totally with outcomes, why…
Rest for Your Souls
Been bounced around like a bb in a boxcar? A surprise tax bill. A friend says you make him feel like an “object.” A neighbor announces a surprise decision that affects your property without so…
Andy’s Daily Prayer
I don’t remember exactly how this came my way. It might have been handed out after a worship service… my church often gives out ‘homework assignments’. But this one stuck and it’s been on my…
Why is listening to God so hard?
Time and again, when I make myself stop, get down on my knees and pray, really talk to God and listen for His voice, I get direction. I get words of affirmation (which are ‘money’…
What’s Beyond Surrender?
In mentoring younger men, I find myself talking about ‘surrender’ a lot. The word comes from “Old French” and dates back to the 1400’s. It first meant “to give (something) over” or “give back”. A…
To have a friend you have to….what?!?
I’ve heard this saying all my life and now I find it’s not true. How can it be? ‘To have a friend you have to be one’ is right up there with ‘God helps those…
How Long Should You Pray?
Prayer is a mystery. On a lot of God stuff, I can eventually get to a place where I kind-of ‘get it’. Prayer keeps hanging out there as an unanswered question. How does it work?…
Are You Arrogant?
Saturday night. Men’s retreat. Bonfire. “Write on this card the issue in your life you haven’t turned over to God.” The card gets nailed to a cross, the cross is raised for the visual, and…
