Contentment vs. Asking with Shameless Audacity
(Picture from June 1, 2013.) I’m on my annual Springtime personal spiritual retreat this week. Monday it began with me thinking about how happy my life is and how fulfilling…
Category: Prayer
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Remembering God’s Faithfulness
Back in the 1980s when I was a student at Biola University, I took an amazing class on the Psalms taught by Dr. Edward Curtis. He taught us about the…
Praying in Crazy Times
During this pandemic, I’ve heard people say they don’t even know how to pray. I’m thinking about the Psalms lately as I think about praying. I do believe there are…
A Lament for Covid-19
I’ve been thinking for a long time about praying like the Psalmists, using the forms of Hebrew poetry to pray. The Lament is the most common form in the Psalms,…
With Thanksgiving
I did a post recently about praying with thanksgiving. Today I’m thinking about a big prayer request I’ve had for a long time: I’d like to get married again. After…
On Prayer
This is going to be a hodgepodge of thoughts about prayer, and I want to tell about an amazing answer to prayer as well, because now it’s public information. An…