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When I Don’t Feel Like Praying
Admit it. You don’t always feel like praying. And just saying, “Pray anyway,” may not be the most valuable advice I could give. Here is an article that may help. How to Pray When You Don’t Feel Like It: What You Can Learn from King David It didn’t matter what he felt, David embraced it…
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Praying Psalm 63
Pastor Jose on praying Psalm 63:3-4
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Unanswered Prayers
One of the biggest challenges we all face is when God doesn’t answer our prayers. Philip Yancey, one of the best Christian thinkers alive today, wrestles with the same thing and blogged about it a few years ago. Boomerang Prayers I wrote two chapters on unanswered prayer, but frankly, all words seem impotent against the…
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Praying Luke 2:52
My absolute favorite verse to pray for people is Luke 2:52. Here’s why.
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Prayer and Culture
My plan is to use this page to present recent articles, book reviews, and the occasional blog to help us think about how to live and apply our faith in a rapidly-changing culture. But one crucial part of working in our culture is prayer. If my people who are called by my name will humble…
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Praying Matthew 9:38
Our Executive Pastor Barry Jones on the importance of praying Matthew 9:38.
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Hurry Up and Listen
We’re back in James to finish up the series, Faith in the Real World. We covered the first half last fall. As to how/why it took half a 13-week series to get to the end of chapter one, well, I may talk about that this next Sunday. Yesterday I started out talking about t-shirts and…
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Conversations That Matter
I’m a week late with this one. I’ll blame it on the tattoo (which I talked about getting a couple weeks ago and showed off this week). Here is a link to the online notes to help you follow along. And these are the first few points I put on the screen but not in…
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Praying Philippians 1:11
Guest Jumpstarter Crystal Copeland lets us in on the power of praying Philippians 1:10.
For years, I’ve produced brief devotional videos called Jumpstarts that I published in various outlets. (You can find them here, as well as the odd podcast.) The root of those videos was daily Bible journals I’ve been doing for decades.
I recently decided to take a hiatus from the videos, and instead publish excerpts from those journals here.
As you’ll soon see, they tend to be brief, normally consisting of just one main idea. They may also be a little rough. I’m not going to do much editing. You’ll get them just the way they came out of my brain, years, days, or months ago.
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