Are any of you obsessive package trackers like me? You buy something online, and suddenly you’re refreshing the app every twenty minutes. “It’s at the facility. It’s on the truck. It’s four stops away!” We live in a world where we desperately want to see the progress before we actually relax and believe the package is coming. But when it comes to prayer, God operates on a completely different tracking system. Today, we’re looking at an incredible story in John 4:47 53 . A government official comes to Jesus because his son is sick, on his deathbed sick. He’s desperate.…
Read More →Sara and I are reading through a Bible in a year plan and we are in 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles, where Solomon is building this massive, gorgeous temple. It was designed to be the ultimate place where a holy God meets His people. But way before the temple, God gave Moses a blueprint in the desert called the Tabernacle. Now, if you read through Exodus, Kings and Chronicles, all those details about the Tabernacle and Temple can feel legalistic and ritualistic. I used to look at it and think, "Man, that’s just a bunch of old rules." But then…
Read More →You ever been in one of those conversations where you realize you’ve been doing all the talking? Or maybe you’re on the other end, and you’re trying to get a word in edgewise, but the other person is just on a roll! It happens to the best of us, right? We’ve all been there. Sometimes we’re so full of what we want to say, what’s on our heart, that we forget the other half of a great conversation: listening. And you know what? Sometimes, I think our prayer lives can feel a little like that. We come to God with…
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