However, God also has qualities and a personality that you can understand. Often, God can also be quite humorous. Yet, you won't be able to relate to Him the same way you relate to a loved one. Even though the Heavenly Father feels so much bigger and more incredible than we can comp...
Fasting is a laudable practice and we have reason to lament that it is generally neglected among Christians - Matthew Henry To fast and pray is something strange to many Christians today. But it is not strange to the Old or the New Testament. It was not something strange in the early Chri...
seldom we pray things through! How often the church and the individual get right up to the verge of a great blessing in prayer and just then let go, get drowsy, quit. I wish that these words “being sleepless unto prayer” might burn into our hearts. I wish the whole verse might burn...
“Nobody is born knowing how to pray,” Veach suggests, using scriptural analysis and personal anecdotes to explore “the purposes and practice of prayer” while providing advice on praying. He describes “refusing to do for my kids what they can do for themselves” and contends that God ...
issues. We should never vote blindly or out of a sense of party loyalty. All too often today, selfish policies rule in place of principles of right. Christians can have no sympathy with this. In voting as in every other activity, Christians should seek divine wisdom and then do their ...
Faith and Obedience: Obedience is often seen as a demonstration of one's faith in God. The Bible teaches that faith without works is dead (James 2:26), meaning that genuine faith leads to obedient actions. Christians are called to demonstrate their faith through their actions and obedience to...
And yet some Christians try. You will often find illustrations in sermons and books on prayer about how prayer is a spiritual discipline, and while the new believer may only pray for five minutes a day, the longer one is a Christian, the more time they should spend in prayer, so that ...
More Often!Get regular exercise. Rest and get proper sleep. Eat a balanced and healthy diet. Avoid unnecessary stress. Take time with God, yourself, family, and friends.This Serenity Prayer Can Speak To Your Needs!“God, grant me the SERENITYto...
Okay, so we all know that Barack Obama is openly and quite religiously worshipped by many folks on the Left. Tales of the ridiculous and blasphemous extremes to which his followers often go to express their adoration have become tragically common. As such, they’ve provided fuel for countless...
It often includes saying or doing things that make you uncomfortable, if it is the right thing to do. This means that you have to have a sense of what the right thing to do is in the first place, which is why I coupled the cardinal virtues of courage and justice in this section. ...