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A Prayer about Freeing Our Hearts
Lord Jesus, May we stop our scrolling for one minute to consider your merciful mission: When a bully taunts our child; when our child turns his heart away from you, Our hearts break. When trusted allies become enemies, when we act like enemies toward trusted...
Christ’s Power for Our Weakness
Dear Friends, as we continue to consider goals and planning, it's also good to recognize the frustrations we may experience in our weakness and how God may be working to restore us. Enjoy this meditation from From Recovery to Restoration: 60 Meditations for Finding...
A Prayer about Healing and Recovery
Merciful God, As I prepare to go in this morning for my second new hip in 2020, I am thankful for the variety of ways you heal our bodies. In this past year, many of us have met our match, a desperate need for healing and recovery from the dread COVID-19 virus. Thank...
Eight Ways the Church Can Care for the Mentally Ill
Dear Friends, It's not surprising that the holiday season can be hard on those afflicted with a mental disorder. The church is uniquely placed to respond, and now is the time to learn how we can better love the afflicted. I hope this blog helps us all consider how we...
Why Inviting Others into Your Grief Matters
Have you ever had say something completely insensitive to you when you were grieving a loss? In today’s blog, we consider why we need to take the risk of inviting others to grieve with us, even when they may get it wrong. (This is an outtake from From Recovery to...
Knowing the Knowledge that Changes the World
Although this excerpt from The Waiting Room: 60 Meditations for Finding Peace & Hope in Crisis was written about seeking certainty in the midst of health crisis, it applies to all of the ways we may seek to “know,” “to have certainty,” and how God calls us to...
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Daily Prayers
A Prayer about Drawing Near to Jesus
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16 King Jesus, Yesterday, my daily prayer gang and I wondered at your sympathy, your capacity to suffer with us, to get inside...
A Prayer about Jesus’ Sympathy for Us
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Hebrews 4:15 Gracious and Generous God, How often do we pause to consider how a sympathetic Savior changes...
A Prayer about Caring for Our Grandchildren’s Parents
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Philippians 2:3 Heavenly Father, Our son laughingly told me before he and his wife left for the week that they understood the “grandparent tax” — the price...
A Prayer about Feeling Desperate in Illness
For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. 2 Corinthians 1:8 Great Physician, What good news — you are near to the broken-bodied and save those who are crushed in spirit and in hope for health (See Psalm 34:18). Today, we...
A Prayer about the Joy of Being Rescued
So he brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with singing. Psalm 105:43 God of Joy and Rescue, How do we enjoy you? Here in this wonderful Psalm of rescue and redemption, we read about how you saved your people, the Israelites. You performed all sorts of...
A Prayer about Being United by Christ
Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, that there be no divisions among you, and that you be united with the same understanding and the same conviction. 1 Corinthians 1:10 Uniting Lord, We...