David Mathis contrasts the access that we have to God through Jesus with the human tendency to add lots of words and phrases as we pray as if that gives us some form of control. IF not having enough words or not having the right words hinders you from praying, you don’t understand Christian prayer. …
A reflective article about life with chronic illness and trust in God by Stephanie Phillips. An excerpt: I had the thought the other day: what if I never change? I don’t remember what I was doing: making yet another dinner, folding some more laundry, mediating another child-fight, battling another impulse to emit a primal scream. …
Tom Olsen provides seven reasons why singing matters for Christians. The first one is fairly definitive in itself. 1. When you sing, you obey. Singing isn’t an option in Scripture. It’s a command: Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and …
Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 43 Chapter 26 – Of the Communion of the Saints I. All saints that are united to Jesus Christ their head, by his Spirit and by faith, have fellowship with him in his graces, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory: and, being united to one another in love, they …
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