There is a rousing declaration tucked away in Psalm 125: “The scepter of the wicked shall not remain over the land allotted to the righteous, for then the righteous might […]
One of the lies that many Christians today believe is that “the world is getting worse and worse, and all we can do is hold tight to what we’ve got […]
In August 2010, Delia Knox, a woman who’d been paralyzed from the waist down for 22 years, got up out of her wheelchair after receiving healing prayer in Alabama. Since […]
It’s been an interesting week to say the least. Holy Week 2013 has been distinguished by red blocks with pink equal signs, red ties, red and pink crosses in response, […]
“We in America need to pray like it’s London, 1940, and the Luftwaffe has just been sighted, ready to start the Blitz on our city.” So stated a pastor friend […]
“God doesn’t speak to me. At least, not that I’m aware of,” a woman in our small group recently remarked. Until a few years ago, I might have said the […]
We’ve been stirred to host prayer for the nation in our home Sunday evenings, every week at least through the election. We held the first meeting last Sunday, September 8 […]
As mentioned in a previous blog, I recently finished Eric Metaxas’ pulse-racing biography on Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The parallels between what this Christian martyr faced just a few decades ago in […]
Reading Eric Metaxas’ blockbuster biography on Dietrich Bonhoeffer has stirred my spirit. It reads like a thriller more than a work of nonfiction, and I find myself agonizing over the […]