A Pilgrim’s lack of progress, subtitled: why pray?

“Why do we need to pray if God knows what we are going to say before we think it?”  The question took me completely by surprise.  This was a group that had been meeting to encourage one another, to provide for ourselves a forum of spiritual accountability.  As the question bounced off the walls, I…

Please don’t cut off my hand…

Obedience to Christ is the foundational principle that I as a follower of Christ must operate on if I call myself a disciple of Jesus.  So I pay attention to the words of Jesus that are set in the context of the command.  In a long line of verses that I could cite are the…

Not much to say today

Rarely have I said this, but these days it seems I just don’t have much to say. Our weekends are spent making ourselves ready for moving, sorting, casting out, packing and along the way remembering those things which have marked out time here. I am convinced that the amount of things that we own or…