Tag Archives: theology

Ask & You Shall Receive #1:
Introduction to Prayer

By | 1 Sep 2013

For quite awhile now, God has been leading me to teach on prayer here at Miscellaneous Ramblings, so I’m now going to do precisely that. In this series, I hope to impart to you the principles and precepts found in the Scriptures I’ve learned and experienced so you, too, can apply them to what hopefully will become —… Read More »

By His Stripes We Are Healed #6:
Be a Doer of the Word

By | 1 Sep 2013

One of the things I’ve seen repeatedly in other believers is that they wait until a major crisis occurs before going to God’s Word and claiming His promises to deal with it. In other words, when they or their loved ones get seriously ill or the husband or wife in a two-income family suddenly lose one or both… Read More »

The Crucial Process of Forgiveness

By | 24 Jul 2013

Introduction A year or so prior to the date of this post, my high school class from San Leandro High School in San Leandro, California celebrated its 40th reunion. When I heard about it, I planned to go until the Lord convicted me that I was attending with the wrong motives. So in obedience, I chose to stay… Read More »

When Disaster Strikes

By | 8 Jul 2013

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 on June 30, 2013. 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 they could… Read More »

It’s Not Just About the Cross,
It’s Also About the Resurrection!

By | 8 Jul 2013

These words came out of my mouth as I was complimenting my pastor and friend Ron Merrell on a well-delivered, highly anointed, and otherwise awesome sermon and he quickly agreed with me. Since the thought as such had never crossed my mind up to that point in the almost 40 years I’ve been a believer, I can only… Read More »

The Real Story of Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

By | 14 Apr 2013

Last Saturday night, using free tickets a friend of my wife gave us, we attended the production of an abridged version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Prescott High School in Prescott, AZ. It was the first time for me to see the play; I’d of course heard of it, but had never… Read More »