How is your prayer life? What do you pray for? Do you pray for your family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances? Do you pray when people ask you to pray? Do you ask others to pray for you? How often do you pray? Are you praying that God’s will be done? Prayer is our communication mechanismContinue reading “Act on Faith”
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Holy Spirit and Fire
Are you seeking to improve yourself? What are you seeking to improve? How are you planning to improve? Do you think it will come easily? Or do you understand it will be challenging? Who are you asking to help with your improvement? Have you asked Jesus to help? If we look for self-improvement books, weContinue reading “Holy Spirit and Fire”
Restored Fortunes
What have you lost that you would like to have found or returned? Was it a relationship? Was it a job? Was it money lost in the stock market? Did you lose your home? What have you done to attempt to recover it? What would you do if it all was returned to you? SometimesContinue reading “Restored Fortunes”
Communicate Well
How well do you communicate across generations? If you are a few decades old, can you speak the language of the teenager? If you are a teenager, can you speak the language of the elderly? Is it important to you to be able to communicate across generations? Communication is the key to relationships. If communicationContinue reading “Communicate Well”
Put Things In Order
Do you have your acts together? Are your things in order? What does it mean to you to have your things in order? Does it mean to have your retirement plan in order? Does it mean a plan for your relationships, job, and children? Have you left someone out of your plan? Often, when weContinue reading “Put Things In Order”
Compiling Data Into Knowledge
What is the most important bit of knowledge you have learned? Is it discovering a scientific fact no one else knew? Is it something you learned about another person? Does it change as you live and learn more? Have you considered you may know the most important fact there is to know? We learn somethingContinue reading “Compiling Data Into Knowledge”
Love Is…
What is love? Is love an emotional feeling? Is it unconditional? Is it committed? Do you describe it as brotherly or sisterly? Does it include your friends and neighbors? Does love include your enemy? Is it only for close relationships? Do you love as Jesus commanded you to love? Our culture too often only refersContinue reading “Love Is…”
Living Free
What does it mean to be alive to you? Do you distinguish between merely existing and really living? Is that distinction based on what you do or the possessions you have? Is it based on the relationships you have? Is one of those relationships your relationship with God? We hear about quality of life. WeContinue reading “Living Free”
Greed vs Contentment
Are you greedy? Do you continually desire to acquire more? Do you work harder to earn more money so you can buy more stuff? Have you given thought to the possibility that you don’t own the stuff, but it owns you? If you desire more, you are normal in today’s American culture. If you workContinue reading “Greed vs Contentment”
Hidden Treasure
Have you ever chased after a hidden treasure? Have you gone on a scavenger hunt? Have you played a game that requires you to put clues together to solve a problem or mystery? While playing one of these games, have you been deceived to throw you off track? I’m guessing not many of us haveContinue reading “Hidden Treasure”
Marty Pressey 