The Lord’s Prayer
The disciples had witnessed Jesus preaching, healing, working other miracles, and praying, and it is noteworthy that it is His praying that they asked Him to teach them. It is as if they understood that the power for everything else…
Why Does God Sometimes Say No?
Have your ever pleaded with God for something you were desperate for? Has He ever said no in response? I certainly have experienced this. This raises the obvious question: Why does God sometimes say no to desperate prayers? There is…
Hosanna!
When the Passover crowds around Jerusalem shouted Hosanna to Jesus, they were a people in desperate need of salvation. They were helpless under the thumb of Rome. Think about how vast the powerful Rome was. There was no human power…
Plagues
As I write this the nation, indeed the world, is on alert for a virus that has, well, gone viral. We have seen something like this alarm in the fairly recent past when Ebola or SARS were on the rise,…
Wrestling with Yes
When we pray we are hoping God will answer “yes” to our prayers, at least in some form, or we wouldn’t pray at all. Right? We wouldn’t generally pray for anything for which we were hoping for a “no” (although…
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