To quote Uncle Albert, “I love to laugh”. The other day, on my way through airport security my carry-on luggage was flagged for further inspection. The suspicious article that showed up on the x-ray was my shaving mug and soap. When I was trying to explain what it was, and that it wasn’t a liquid…
Healing Prayers
I love this story. Here we see Jesus healing not one person or two but four in three separate instances and if we had of kept reading we would have discovered that after leaving the blind men he healed a man who was mute. And this wasn’t an isolated incident in the story. Contained within…
Seriously
It was one of those newspaper articles that made me go: Seriously? Garage owner Chad Rankin is appealing a court decision that found him to be responsible for an accident involving two teens in 2006.The teens, who had been drinking and smoking pot, trespassed onto Rankin’s property and stole a car that had been left…
Unanswered Prayer
God Answers Prayer, But Not Always Prayer helps us feel closer to God, more connected to the church and extremely guilty if it is perceived that we don’t do it enough or correctly. And this is one of the verses that is often claimed as a promise for praying Christians: James 5:16 The earnest prayer…
Where’d it go?
The mail always gets through, eventually. I read a news story a number of years ago about a post card that arrived in Aberdeen Scotland from Brisbane Australia a little late. In most cases surface mail from “Down Under” can take up four to six weeks to make the journey to Scotland. The problem was…
How You Pray
If I was to ask for a show of hands as to how many folks here pray I would suspect that virtually everyone would raise their hands. If I was to ask how many folks believe their prayers would be answered hopefully the same number would raise their hands. I mean really, if we don’t…
Let us Pray. . . I mean Play
I read the other day that 58 % of sport fans pray that their team will win. I'm not sure what to make of that, other than wild speculation concerning the spiritual condition of Atlanta Falcon fans during this year’s Super Bowl. Think about it, 58 %, so how would, or more importantly, how should God respond…
When You Pray
When you Pray. I love the positive thought that comes across in the statement that Jesus made to the disciples in the book of Matthew. It is found in what we refer to as the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus says three words that reflect his positive belief in the people who will call…