I’ve been reading backwards through the New Testament. There’s something about reading the letters to the early church first, and then diving into the history…
View More The Vertical ThreadCategory: Friday Devotionals
Praying Bigger Prayers
Sometimes our prayers are too small. Many of us keep lists of people and situations we pray for regularly. I am so thankful we can…
View More Praying Bigger PrayersPraying
Praying. How can one little word bring comfort? Peace? Encouragement? I’ve gone through some major health battles the past couple years and I believe that…
View More PrayingThe Prayer That Never Fails
Prayer is hard work. It seems like it should be easy, right? How hard is it to simply talk to God? But so many things…
View More The Prayer That Never FailsPrayer’s End: When our Longings are Satisfied
The new year had begun and we were back from holidays. My oldest was in school again and my youngest was adjusting to his resolution…
View More Prayer’s End: When our Longings are SatisfiedPrayer’s Middle: Living in Longing
Life has beginnings and ends, some welcome and others hard to receive, but most of our living is in the middle. Most prayer is spent…
View More Prayer’s Middle: Living in LongingPrayer Guide for Our Children’s Future Spouses
(The following prayers are based on the ESV translation.) Praying for a daughter’s future husband: 1.Lord God, I pray that he would love You with…
View More Prayer Guide for Our Children’s Future SpousesPrayer Is for Us Too
The Lord shows us new things even as we get older. I’m learning new ways to pray, new depths of communion with the Lord, and…
View More Prayer Is for Us TooPraying for Our Children’s Future Spouses
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. Proverbs 31:10 One afternoon my husband came home from a lunch meeting…
View More Praying for Our Children’s Future SpousesGratitude: Our Anchor in the Waiting
When my middle son was born he had terrible colic. He would cry for up to six hours a day. It was awful. When I…
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