Month: March 2009

Prayer is essential to getting to know God. How much do you pray? Some people say it doesn’t matter how much time you spend in prayer. I believe it matters a great deal because prayer is where your relationship with God is formed. The disciples saw Jesus at prayer over and over again. Yet they…

Our culture proclaims quite clearly what it considers to be a success. Just google “how to be successful” or pick up a magazine and you will see. The media is filled with “success” stories, and advice on how to succeed. Cultural values about success bleed into the Christian culture as well. Are our cultural values…

Testimonials are commonplace. Courtroom lawyers call on expert witnesses. Tabloids and magazines are full of testimonials. Friends pass along their experiences. Who do you listen to? Whose witness do you believe? A man, declared dead from an auto crash, went to heaven. After surviving, he writes a testimony about it. A woman dying of cancer…