Category Archives: Prayer
Just a thought
Couldn't Help Noticing, Sola Panel
Keep praying
Prayer changes everything
Interchange
Prayer changes nothing
Couldn't Help Noticing
Public prayer
Interchange
Prayerful rugby
Couldn't Help Noticing
The servant’s paradox: Part I
Life
A paradox is where two things seem to be opposite, but you know they are both true. It’s a tension, a contradiction, an antimony (according to my thesaurus), a mystery. It’s the fact that too many cooks spoil the broth, but at the same time, many hands make light work. It’s the truth that he who hesitates is lost, but only a fool wouldn’t look before he leaps.
The Prayer of Jabez and other misuses of the Bible
Review
THE Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life
Bruce H. Wilkinson
Multnomah Publishers, 2000.Hardcover, 96pp.
It is a #1 bestseller in Christian bookstores. In fact, it was a #1 New York Times bestseller. It is a book that promises to revolutionize your life. It is called The Prayer of Jabez. (more…)
The very practical doctrine of the Trinity
Thought
The joy of ministry
Pastoral Ministry
In Luke’s gospel, chapter 10, verse 20, we read ‘Howbeit in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven’.
This verse comes at the end of a short passage reporting our Lord’s words to the seventy disciples on their return from the ministry on which he had sent them. They came back full of joy in the success of their ministry. (more…)
Diagnosing a sick prayer life
The apprentice’s Miracle
Prayer, praise and singing in church
Everyday Ministry, Sola Panel
Our series of articles on prayer and praise stimulated a number of responses, the majority of them being short notes and calls about how helpful the material had been.