Spirituality
The Freedom Of Those Who Love
(Helmut Thielicke) When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go free, for nothing… But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go free,’ then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring […]
Staying Awake
Sample of Daily Encounter by Dick Innes “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings” (1 Peter 5:8-9, NIV). A U.S. […]
Devotion: Networking… Or Working The Net
…God who has been my shepherd from my birth to this day …who has redeemed me… The Lord is my shepherd; I lack nothing. Give ear, O shepherd of Israel… appear… come to our help! Restore us… Like a shepherd he pastures his flock: he gathers… carries… gently [he] drives… As a shepherd seeks out […]
Gratefulness The Heart Of Prayer
(David Steindl-Rast) One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him — and he was a Samaritan. Jesus asked, ‘Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Was no-one found to return and give praise to […]
Prayer Wheel
Let’s see the devil stop this one! Here’s what the wheel is all about. When you receive this, say a prayer for the person that sent it to you….That’s all you have to do….There is nothing attached….This is so powerful….Just send this to seven people and watch God’s answer to prayer work in your life. […]
Devotion: Midlife
Halfway through life I was living in peace, but God took me by the throat and battered me and crushed me. God uses me for target practice and shoots arrows at me from every side – arrows that pierce and wound me; and even then he shows no pity. He wounds me again and again; […]
September 2001 Prayer
DO IT AGAIN, LORD America Prays Sept. 15, 2001 >From Max Lucado Dear Lord, We’re still hoping we’ll wake up. We’re still hoping we’ll open a sleepy eye and think, “What a horrible dream.” But we won’t, will we, Father? What we saw was not a dream. Planes did gouge towers. Flames did consume our […]
Dear Adam… A Letter To South Africa
Dear Adam… A letter to South Africa ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?… O, my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent.’ ‘I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me. When I lie down […]
Praying For Others
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-170 PRAYING FOR OTHERS From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you. 1 Samuel 12:23. In Christ in the […]
Send My Roots Rain
(Gerard Manley Hopkins) But I desire to speak to the Almighty and to argue my case with God… Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face… Now that I have prepared my case, I know I will be vindicated. Can anyone bring charges against […]
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