Category Archives: Christian Theology

Ask & You Shall Receive #9:
Unpacking the Lord’s Prayer

By | 4 Nov 2013
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Show me any inter-denominational meeting of church folk and somewhere along the line, one of the leaders will have the crowd present recite the Lord’s Prayer — regardless of its applicability or lack thereof to the actual proceedings. Why? Because of its universality among all denominations and everyone present knows it by heart. That’s the up-side. The down-side is… Read More »

Ask & You Shall Receive #8:
Talking to Mountains?

By | 31 Oct 2013
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When I taught on prayer awhile back and stated that there are models taught in the Bible on how to pray, one of those present challenged me, demanding: You mean to say we have to pray a certain way or we won’t get our prayers answered!? To which I replied: No, because that would be a legalistic recipe… Read More »

Christian No-Nos

By | 20 Oct 2013
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I’m taking a second break away from my prayer series to write something God has put on my heart. Or as Monty Python used to say, “And now for something completely different!” And no, I’m not about to talk about home laser body-hair removal devices for sale on TV (ORDER NOW!!! OPERATORS ARE STANDING BY!!! 🙂 ) Very… Read More »

Milestones

By | 13 Oct 2013
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I just celebrated my 60th birthday along with my brother-from-another-mother/brother-in-Christ, Pete Parise and his wife Deb, as well as my beautiful wife Tess. Pete and Deb have been my closest friends for almost 40 years now, so it was an awesome birthday present to see them again. It was also Pete’s 58th birthday because he is 2-years-to-the-day younger… Read More »

Ask &amp You Shall Receive #7:
Praying in Faith – Part 3

By | 10 Oct 2013
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The Four Ps Almost 40 years ago, right after I first got saved, I read a book entitled The Purpose of Temptation by one of the leaders of the Charismatic Movement in the 1970s. In that book, he described a process found throughout Scripture that he termed “The Four Ps,” an acrostic that describes God’s dealings with His… Read More »

Ask & You Shall Receive #6:
Praying in Faith – Part 2

By | 21 Sep 2013
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Faith, Not Sight For we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7 …being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].Hebrews 11:1b AMP This refines our concept of faith even further. Faith believes God’s Word despite what we can: Perceive with our… Read More »