I’ve been a gym goer from my middle-teen years to the present. I have learned that the more fit I am, the more productive I am during the day, I burn calories more efficiently, and the better I sleep. While I do not run the speeds or lift the weights I used to when I was younger, I still attend a gym most every weekday for some type of fitness work.
Through the years, I’ve learned there is a phenomenon that occurs in gyms in January through March: there is an influx of new members....
During the month of November, I was able to travel to South Dakota with a colleague from the main campus to participate in a pheasant hunt hosted by a pastor friend from Fort Worth, Texas. This was definitely a guy thing: there were two from Mid-America and the pastor, a member of his staff, and three laymen from Texas. It was my first chance to hunt pheasants in two decades.
Each morning after breakfast, the pastor would lead our group in prayer and devotions. His devotional protocol was to...
Have you ever been stuck in your private devotions? Oftentimes as I have navigated my personal devotional life, I get stuck on a particular prayer burden. God captures my spiritual attention in such a way over a particular person or need that in some cases, my prayer over that need spans the months and years. As I move in Christian circles, most believers I know can attest to similar experiences.
Have you ever been stuck on a particular Scripture that you come across during devotional reading?...
“I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war” Psalm 120:7.
Psalm 120 is known as a prayer for deliverance from the treacherous and I can’t think of a more suitable prayer for these present days. As many of my age, we grew up watching violence in the streets of many US cities mainly pertaining to protests against the Vietnam War or protests promoting the Civil Rights Movement.
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