It’s so easy nowadays to connect to people. Each new technological advancement seems to increase the ease with which we interact with others, and a multitude of...
39 Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him.40 On reaching the place, he said to them, “Pray that you will not fall into t...
The primary mode by which I focus in prayer is through my prayer journal (typically on Evernote). The only rule I have for myself is that I type completely hone...
Last night it happened again. As I was praying, drifting off to sleep, I began babbling in nonsense syllables. “Get out of bed!” whispered a voice within me. “Y...
A couple of years ago, a space movie titled Gravity was released. In one of the more dramatic scenes of the movie, when it seemed that their hope for survival i...
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law...
I pray not because I want to be delivered whenever I have a hardship and only when I have a hardship. I pray not because others tell me to. I pray not because m...
Recently I’ve been thinking quite a lot about unanswered prayer—you know, the perennial question of what to think of a God who says “Knock, and the door will be...
In my last post, I discussed some ways of jolting myself out of my functionally atheist rut—ways of remembering God in times and places that aren’t always condu...
