Tag Archives: sovereignty of God

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 »

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 #5:
Praying in Faith – Part 1

By | 16 Sep 2013
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Faith Defined Just about every Christian theologian can agree that the following verse in the Book of Hebrews defines the concept of “faith:” Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. — Hebrews 11:1 As with almost all of my Scripture quotes, this one is from the New King James Version. Unfortunately,… Read More »

Acts of God — Not! #10:
When Disaster Strikes

By | 8 Jul 2013
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On June 30 of this year, 19 firefighters of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite wilderness firefighting team fielded by the Prescott, Arizona Fire Department, died while fighting a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona. They were caught out in the open when a sudden wind-shear reversed the course of the fire back towards them, overwhelming the team long before… Read More »