GRATITUDE Thursday, November 24 THANKSGIVING DAY Most high, all powerful, all good Lord! All praise is yours, all glory, all honor, and all blessing. To you, alone, Most High, do they belong. No mortal lips are worthy to pronounce your name. Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially […]
I have been in many places, but I’ve never been in Cahoots. Apparently, you can’t go alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone. I’ve also never been in Cognito. I hear no one recognizes you there. I have, however, been in Sane. They don’t have an airport; you have to be […]
When Job’s life is about to be taken away from him, he can say one of two things. He can curse God, as he is tempted to do, and say, ¢â‚¬Å“God, why not fifty-one years of life? ¢â‚¬ Or he can surrender to love and say, ¢â‚¬Å“God, why even fifty years? ¢â‚¬ Why did I deserve life […]
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER PASTOR’S DEATH SENTENCE HIGHLIGHTS CHRISTIANS PLIGHT IN IRAN DAM SUSPENDED YET WAR CONTINUES PAPUAN CHURCH NO LONGER A SAFE HAVEN CHRISTIANS KILLED AND CHURCHES BOMBED IN NIGERIA HINDU HEALED OF LEPROSY NOW MINISTERS FOR CHRIST PASTOR’S DEATH SENTENCE HIGHLIGHTS CHRISTIANS PLIGHT IN IRAN Thirty-two years ago this month Americans were taken […]
A Guide to Prayer for Ministers and other Servants (Upper Room, 1983) 1982-3 was the most difficult year of my professional life, recovering from a painful divorce from the church to which we had been called a year earlier. [1] But it was also the richest, spiritually. With no other pastoral interruptions, I prayed/read while […]
Muslims in the West: Loyal to Whom? Posted: 13 Mar 2011 A briefing by Mark Durie January 20, 2011 http://www.meforum.org/2848/muslims-in-the-west-loyal Mark Durie is a theologian, human rights activist, and pastor of an Anglican church in Australia. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Leiden, MIT, UCLA, and […]
The great thing about God ¢â‚¬â„¢s love is that it ¢â‚¬â„¢s not determined by the object. God does not love us because we are good. God loves us because God is good. It takes our whole lives for that to sink in because that ¢â‚¬â„¢s not how human love operates. Human love is largely determined by […]
At Carnegie Hall, gospel singer Wintley Phipps delivers perhaps the most powerful rendition of Amazing Grace ever recorded. * He says, “A lot of people don’t realize that just about all Negro spirituals are written on the black notes of the piano. * ¢â‚¬Å“Probably the most famous on this slave scale was written by John Newton, who […]
The Montana Department of Employment, Division of Labor Standards, claimed a small rancher was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent out to investigate him. GOV’T AGENT: “I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them.” RANCHER: “Well, there’s my hired hand who’s been with me […]
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 134 | Wed 16 Nov 2011 —————————————– SUDAN: REFUGEES BOMBED; ‘OIL WAR’ LOOMING —————————————– By Elizabeth Kendal Religious Liberty Monitoring noted in the 14 May 2010 posting: ‘There will be a massive war for control of the oil fields presently situated on the southern side of the North-South border.’ […]