May 18, 2012

prayer & fasting

Prayer is the one hand with which we grasp the invisible; fasting the other, with which we let loose and cast away the visible. • Andrew Murray … [Read more...]

pray harder

If I worked hard and prayed even harder, anything was possible. • Robert Edwards … [Read more...]

arriving

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a ride!" Unknown … [Read more...]

sweet fruit

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. • Jean Jacques Rousseau … [Read more...]

the passion

Jesus' suffering and death is not a Hatfields-and-McCoys story demanding retaliation. The gist of the religion that transformed the world is: God's only son came to Earth to take the punishment we deserved. If the Jews had somehow managed to block … [Read more...]