After the Passover supper with his disciples, Jesus was full of tension that the disciples didn’t perceive.  It was just another night,...

Why is it so hard to know how God speaks to me? I’ve heard that question so often. It breaks my heart because I know the angst it...

The scene is private.  We would have seen nothing unusual if we had been visitors to the Temple that day.  A young couple brought their...

My favorite Christmas angel story is not when Mary receives her message from an angel. It is the story of Zechariah and his angel visit....

If . . . there it is, the 2-letter word that can come between us and God just like the tempter did in the Garden of Eden and tried to do...

Daniel prayed fervently, openly, daily, and specifically. He didn’t pray in protest or for show. But when he prayed, the heavens opened...

Too many times I start at the wrong beginning in planning for a New Year.  I think about what I want to accomplish, answer questions that...

If we want to follow God, we must be able to recognize His voice, His nudges, His warnings. But how do we do that? That is probably the...

Decisions. We make about 35,000 of them a day! Of course, not all are life changing. Many are just the mundane stuff of life. But what...

When the day was long, the crowds were overwhelming, the people demands unrelenting, Jesus refreshed himself by taking time to pray. He...

Prayer should be the spiritual rhythm that structures our days. We accomplish what God wants us to do in between prayer or during it. A...

As I prayed for our daughter through countless physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges, I learned much about prayer. I learned the...

How would we pray if we really believed God would answer? And there it is, the 2-letter word that can come between us and God just like...

We don’t like do-overs. Once and done; that’s our motto. However, if we apply that persuasion to God’s protective requirement to turn...

Have you ever eavesdropped on someone’s private prayer for you? The closest I ever came was seeing my name written in my mother’s Bible...

When I think of people who modeled an intimate relationship with God, it always showed up best in their prayers. They were talking to a...

How does intimacy with God develop?.This is an important leading question because the last thing I want from prayer is a guilt...

Is there anything more important we could learn in 2021 than how prayer could transform our lives? I fear we ask the wrong questions of...