Just Suppose

Just suppose, when I pray, there really is someone listening who cares about me and wants to know what is on my mind. Just suppose, when I pray, it changes me and my view of how the universe operates and who is involved. Just suppose, I put my doubts aside for a minute and consider…

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…