This week, we sit down with Gary Hoag to talk about encouraging Christian generosity.
Prayer proceeds to create atmosphere and then habitat—environmental conditions from which many other new things can spring forth.
Sometimes God moves mountains in an unmistakably sovereign way. More often, he moves us, by the strength of his Spirit.
Prayer should be understood less as pleading and more as calling forth.
Steve Seamands encourages us to ask the ascended Christ to send the Holy Spirit upon you so that you can join him in participating in his mission.
That’s what prayer is—world-making speech. This is what God does.
Jesus is the victor who, after his suffering and humiliation, has been crowned with glory and honor.
In this Seven Minute Seminary, Craig Keener helps explain the context of Israel’s laws by pointing out that many of the laws were admittedly meant to limit sin, not abolish it altogether.
If Jesus Christ is now engaged in this high priestly work of intercession on our behalf and on behalf of the world, it stands to reason that we too will also find ourselves joining him in that work.
Biblically speaking, prayer means war. Prayer means advance. Prayer means recovering what has been lost and taking back what has been stolen.
Against the advice of Dionysius (ironically, the god of madness), Midas asked for the power to turn everything he touched to gold—to power, wealth, prestige. The next day he hugged his only daughter, turning her
