I finally got around to reading Gospel by JD Greear and I love almost everything about it. In fact my almost is so picky I hesitate to mention it. But I must. And I suppose I should get the almost out of the way because I don’t want it to get in the way of [...]
On some Tuesdays, I go back into the archives and dig up something that still relates today. Today, I bring back some thoughts on why men don’t pray. (YouTube Link)
On some Tuesdays, I go back into the archives and dig up something that still relates today. For the next 5 weeks, I am going to repost the Top 5 Posts from 2011. Today’s post is #1 and it comes from February 21, 2011. I am so glad this was the most popular post on [...]
Each Tuesday, I fire up the Flux Capacitor and bring an old blog post back from the past. Today, I’m doing something a bit different. I am posting two old teachings that relate to last weekend’s teaching at Riv. “Psalm 69: A Psalm of Cursing“ “Psalm 22: A Psalm of Redemption“
The list of problems to pray for always seems longer than the hours of the day, and grows faster than they are resolved. How do you decide what (and how much) to pray for? It’s hard for me to imagine praying consistently and repeatedly for every problem that crosses my radar, and I suspect your [...]
Someone at Riv recently sent me a bunch of questions about prayer because of some comments I had made on the subject. His questions were really good, so I’ve decided to dedicate this week’s blog posts to his questions. So if prayer is so active, why is so much written and said on unanswered prayer [...]
During the course of Riv’s current series on 1 Timothy, I am blogging about stuff I can’t get to during the weekend services. Today, I am posting an open letter to my brothers who pastor in Jesus’ church around the world. This is going to be a longer post than normal but I feel like [...]
Each week at Riv, we get a lot of prayer requests. Some come in from people at the weekend services and some come in from our website. A group of elders and other leaders gather to pray through the requests each week but we wanted to open it up for more people to pray. A [...]
During the course of Riv’s current series on 1 Timothy, I am going to take some time to blog about some interesting stuff I wasn’t able to get to during the weekend services. This passage was particularly convicting for me during my studies: First of all, then, I urge that requests, prayers, intercessions, and thanks [...]
Whenever I am studying a passage to teach at Riv, there is so much I come across that I don’t have time to squeeze into my messages. That’s why, during the course of the current series on 1 Timothy, I am going to take some time to blog about some of the material that ended [...]