http://www.newattitude.org/blog/entry.php?category=Application&id=242#jumpdownAfter reading this post, here were some thoughts I had…How am I preparing specifically? Is there one area in my life that I’m praying that God will work?
The area in my life that I’m praying God will work is with “extreme” faith. I want God to show me not just how to not live my [...]
Archive for May, 2007
23 May
Extreme faith
23 May
Death and Life
As I’ve been learning that the cross (death) brings life, a strange thing has been happening. People keep dying. First it was my coworker’s 20 year old son who was murdered. Then it was another coworker and his 17 year old son who were killed in a car crash. Then yesterday someone I went to [...]
14 May
Knowledge
“All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.”John Owen
10 May
Batter my Heart
Batter my heart, three-personed God; for youAs yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bendYour force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.I, like an usurped town, to another due,Labour to admit you, but oh, to no end,Reason your viceroy in me, me should [...]
8 May
2nd Wednesday club
Thoughts as I prepare for 2nd Wednesday…Romans 12:12“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.”
I was thinking about the hope that I have – hope of an eternity with God, hope of my complete sanctification one day, hope because the Holy Spirit is at work in me, hope because our God is good [...]
3 May
National Day of Prayer
Today is the national day of prayer. Below is the “official” 2007 Prayer for our Nation. I can’t help but think how relevant this is, specifically with what we talked about in care group last night (the first part especially was helpful to me).
“Almighty God, we pause to reflect on Your character as we seek [...]
1 May
The Slumber
“The blessings and the gifts of this life aren’t the good news of the gospel. Our hope for life everlasting, swamped by a never-ending bliss, is the good news. But Christianity has fallen asleep to this new and living hope. Consequently, we desperately seek satisfaction in a world where no satisfaction is to be [...]
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