Prayer - Spiritual Disciplines
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…
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…
Read More →The Discipline of Hope
I want to bring us some hope in our prayer time today, hope that Paul helps us with in Romans 12:12 . But I want to start today by just being real about where we are. If you’ve been paying at least a little attention lately, you’ve felt it. There is a heavy cloud over our community right now. We see families struggling, tension in our schools, and a lot of folks who just look... tired. There’s a lot of anger out there, a lot of fear, and if we’re being honest, a whole lot of hopelessness . It feels…
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