Have you ever been in one of those sticky situations, where the only way out is if God bails you? At that moment you stopped to pray something like, “God, if you get me out of this one, I’ll go to church every week, and read my Bible…” Maybe as a kid it was when […]
Downloading the Thanksgiving App – Ways to integrate thanksgiving into your prayer life
Second week in our series on prayer. This week we talked about downloading thanksgiving and gratitude into life. Here are some of the ideas we shared in the service, and a few others to help with growing in our prayer in this area. Good things, bad things, God things – Have each family member discuss […]
Responding as Christians to Bin Laden’s death
A member of Genesis sent me an e-mail asking about our response to the news of Usama Bin Laden’s death. As we watch people celebrate, is this the appropriate response for us? Also, how does this situation relate to the Commandment not to kill? Here is the response I wrote. I it might be good […]
Downloading the Praise App – Ideas for integrating praise in your life
Started our new series on prayer this past Sunday. We are calling the series iPray as we look at different apps of prayer that we should download into our lives. During the series we are looking at models of these prayers in the book of Psalms. The first app we studies was praise, or adoring […]
During May we as a church are going to emphasize prayer. We have a sermon series looking at various aspects of prayer, and we are encouraging our people to participate in prayer on many different levels. One of the ways we are doing that is through a prayer Calendar and Journal we have published. You […]