(Nolan2011,75)Spiritualcaretakes placein acontextin whichpastorsandchaplainsmeetpeoplefromall walks of life,withor withoutreligiousaffiliations.Researchin healthcaresituations,however,showsthatprayingfor the(mentally) ill seemsto be mostben-eficialwhennursesandothers whopray withpatientsdo so fromasimilar...
Lord, I pray for my husband’s spiritual walk with you. Help him togrow in faithand to walk with you each day. May he desire tospend timereading and studying your Word each day. Help him to gain wisdom and direction from your Word each day and grow in the fear of the Lord. Amen....
Two disarming black labs, my Elijah and Jean Luc Picard, who arrived with some house guests, have been teaching me about bliss. The dogs met for the first time a week ago with the hearty delight of Adam, when God introduced to him the woman he had made of Adam’s rib. “Ah, at ...
PRAYING HANDS & DIRTY FINGERNAILS A-11 Sunday 6:45 AM 6th Annual United Methodist Women Walk for Mission Giving (EC) 5K Run for Mission (EC) 9:00 Bishop's Learning Time (JKH) "Father, How Would You Have Us to Pray?" John 15 Rev. Juanita Rasmus Pastor, St. John's UMC, Houston,...
My hope is that the apparently scattered atoms of the body of Christ will be united in celebrating the One who gives himself to us and makes us who we are, while hearing the Word and preparing in imagination, desire, and longing, for the ways in which we may serve each other with more...
Alan Cooperman
such as the pastor who claims to his impressed congregation that “Bible” stands for “Basic Information Before Leaving Earth.” Like so much in “Praying for Armageddon,” it’s tempting to find such assertions laughable, until you remember that underestimating a political entity, on the basis...
“Why is my marriage stressful if we are both Christians and pray?” It’s a good question because intellectually, we believe that being a Christian and praying each night should be enough to make marriage (and life for that matter) work. Following are two reasons that’s simply not true...
Two disarming black labs, my Elijah and Jean Luc Picard, who arrived with some house guests, have been teaching me about bliss. The dogs met for the first time a week ago with the hearty delight of Adam, when God introduced to him the woman he had made of Adam’s rib. ...
Gibson paused for a second, deep in thought. “I guess, in the beginning I was just protesting all of the political correctness and the hate that the SJWs were spewing around the country. This was before Antifa even came into the picture. When I first started carrying my Trump flag, peo...