Prayer - God's Word
When You Run Out of Words
Have you ever been in a moment where you wanted to express something deeply meaningful to someone you care about, but you completely ran out of words? You want to say the right thing, but your mind goes totally blank. What do you do? You buy a card written by someone who expressed it better than you ever could, and you think, Yes, that’s exactly what my heart wants to say. Today, I share about having the perfect words to say . Our worship leader, Karissa, just wrote a fantastic book called Evergreen: Tools to Study Scripture. It is packed…
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Taking Jesus at His Word
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 →The Tabernacle Template: A Roadmap for Your Prayer Time
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…
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