The Priority of Prayer
Prayer should be our number one priority in building an intimate relationship with Christ
Prayer
A Healthy Church is a Praying Church
Prayer is a vital part of an effective, strong, healthy, and biblical church!
10 Christians Quotes on the Importance of Prayer
Prayer is one of the humblest postures a man can take. Then the opposite is true. Prayerlessness is pridefulness.
7 Ways to Pray for Church Leaders
The last year or so has perhaps been the most disruptive and draining time for any church leader. This perhaps is not only for pastors or church leaders but was the most difficult year to survive navigating through making very difficult decisions.
10 Prayers During Hard Times
What should our response be to a crisis like? How can we pray during these uncertain times? How does faith come in play in such a time as this?
Episode 2: How to Cultivate a Scripture Reading for our Everyday Life?
Biblical illiteracy within churches are rampant and is all over the place! Pastors are doing diligence in preparing and preaching sermons, but the real problem is people are not reading their Bible!
New Morning, New Year, New Mercies
I come with singing and everlasting joy within my heart. I obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing goes away.
The Second Great Awakening: Charles Finney
Charles Finney radically altered the direction of American Christianity
20 Motivational Quotes for Corporate Prayer
“What we cannot obtain by solitary prayer we may by social…because where our individual strength fails, there union and concord are effectual.” – Chrysostom
What to do When We are Prayerless?
Does God really listen to my prayers? Does he really hear me when I cry out to him?
Letter to the Anxious Christian
How can we continue on with faith in the life of anxiety when things seem uncertain? What are some ways to trust in our God in the midst of the storm?
Spiritual Disciplines: Laziness or Legalism?
Can spiritual disciplines turn Christians into simply doing a checklist of rules? Or are these tasks weighing down Christians with unnecessary guilt?
5 Christian Principles from Jonathan Edward’s Resolution
The greatest pastor theologian in American Puritanism, stimulator of the religious revival known as the “Great Awakening,” Jonathan Edwards penned these words the year of 1722 a resolution that he devoted himself to the aim for godliness and the glory of God.
Valley of Vision Christmas Prayer
What shall I render to you for the gift of gifts, your own dear Son? Herein is wonder of wonders: he came below to raise me above, was born like me that I might become like him.
Friends, I need your help.
This has changed my life and I hope with my whole heart that it will change yours.
Pseudo Self-righteous Anger Problem
In the book of James, the solution to interpersonal conflict is shockingly vertical.
Meeting Christ Changes Everything
If you’re saying you always been what you’ve always been then you need to ask if you’ve ever really met Jesus. Meeting Christ changes everything.
The Eight ‘Ds’ of Personal Discipleship
In this fallen world even people in a very complex, postmodern world are desperately hungry to hear the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We need to step it up. We need to toughen up and take this job seriously. We need to be ready to suffer for the gospel. We need to be motivated by this stewardship that we have been entrusted. We are to run this race well.
How to Pray in Your Dullest Moments?
Do you remember when movies and Facebook was a very, very little thing? Do you remember when your great desire was to read the Word and your great desire was to pray and your great desire was to be like him? And your great desire was to just be before him and somehow he would have noticed you? The …
What if I Don’t Want to Read the Bible?
Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote (ibid., p. 219), “Indeed, our chief defect as Christians is that we fail to realize Christ’s love to us.” He adds (p. 223), “How important it is that we should meditate upon this love and contemplate it! It is because we fail to do so that we tend to think at times that He has forgotten us, or that He has left us.”
Theology Of Work: Faith & Service
It was a Sunday afternoon after our regular Sunday morning service, we gathered around in the back fellowshipping with one another and a member jumped into the conversation mentioning of the retirement. Excited this person was as she mentioned of her own decision something like this: “Working a normal job, I had to spend 40 or 50 hours a …