Last time we talked about how it’s biblical to pray for healing, and such prayers don’t have to be to the exclusion of outreach to the lost. But we ended with a caveat: We must stop praying for healing when God says no, as He did to Paul.
“Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. And (more…)
We all know someone who needs healing. Sometimes it’s a serious short-term illness; sometimes it’s chronic or even incurable. The logical response is prayer, except when it seems illogical.
Today I learned a man I admire exceedingly has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, a death sentence by conventional wisdom. And how I pray for him says something about my faith.
I serve a (more…)
It was a busy day, and at the end of it, I had errands to run and somewhere to be. So it wasn’t cool when my debit card was declined in the grocery store checkout line – three times.
“Maybe you should go call your bank,” the friendly teller suggested.
That’s when I saw the fraud alert text from my bank. So I (more…)
We broken humans often get ourselves into a fix-it mentality. When our personal or professional lives are a mess, we try to find a quick fix that we can apply so we can move on. When those fixes fail, we come to find out that the problem is—gasp!—us, and there’s no quick fix for that.
So then we focus on fixing those (more…)
When my boys were little, one of them had a toy called Stretch Armstrong. And yes, Stretch stretched, across the room, down the hallway, from the top bunk to the bottom—until my son broke him. We put a colorful bandage on Stretch’s leg, and stretched Stretch less after that.
We all eventually find our breaking point when we’re overextended. Lately I’ve wondered (more…)