New pencils, fresh notebooks, sharp crayons, vibrant markers—there is just something special about school supplies. As a kid I loved going to the store with the list of necessary items for the upcoming school year, selecting just the right folder for each class, finding the perfect mechanical pencil (no wood, please!), and fine-point pens. It … Continue reading Praying for Wisdom This School Year
Category: Prayer
Does Pride Month Harden Your Heart or Break It?
Rainbow tinted profile pictures, rainbow light displays, the pride flag on nearly every staff—reminders about what month we’re in greet us at every turn. Pride Month has grown from a niche community recognition to a national celebration rivaled only by Christmas. No longer can we ignore what’s going on “out there.” We followers of Christ … Continue reading Does Pride Month Harden Your Heart or Break It?
Pride Month Prayer Guide
As the first day of June looms near, it's time for an annual reminder to be in prayer for our neighbors, leaders, family, and friends. While the next thirty days will be dominated by the clarion call of the world, may we take the month of June to remember who the real enemy is and … Continue reading Pride Month Prayer Guide
Wrestling in Prayer
Aside from many elementary-school recesses, my football career was very short-lived. It consisted of exactly one “powderpuff” game during Homecoming Week my senior year of high school. We girls each borrowed a football player’s jersey for the game and suited up to face one another for one glorious night on the gridiron. My big moment … Continue reading Wrestling in Prayer
Praying for Discernment
“Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong; it’s knowing the difference between right and almost right.” This quotation attributed to Charles Spurgeon captures the difficulty of discernment. Plenty of the images, videos, and sound-bytes we encounter every day carry an overtly worldly and unbiblical worldview. Rooting this out does require discernment but … Continue reading Praying for Discernment
Prayer for My Heart This Election Year
It’s here. Again. How can four years go by so quickly? Didn’t we just live through a contentious, rancorous, raucous presidential election cycle? Of course, we’ve been hearing about poll numbers for the 2024 election for about a year, but now that the calendar has turned to January, we must brace ourselves for the roller … Continue reading Prayer for My Heart This Election Year
A Prayer for Living in Cancel Culture
As the world-system grows increasingly hostile to God and more openly indulgent of its fleshly desires, navigating situations within our families, workplaces, communities, and even churches has become foggy and confusing. Do we let our kids watch the movie with that agenda-pushing scene? How do we talk to our third-grade son when a student in … Continue reading A Prayer for Living in Cancel Culture
God Said No. What Now?
When I was in Bible college, every Monday in chapel would bring a round of “Works of God Testimonies,” when our president would encourage students and faculty to share brief, specific, God-glorifying testimonies of how we’d seen prayers answered in the recent past. Over four years, I heard testimonies of debts repaid, hard hearts softened, … Continue reading God Said No. What Now?
A Prayer for Victims of the Post-Pandemic Pandemic
It’s a post-pandemic pandemic, and chances are pretty good it has already hit your home. It’s not a virus or a variant. It’s not a bacterium or a parasite. I’m talking of course about anxiety. You’re probably aware of some of the staggering statistics about the precipitous rise in anxiety cases in the last three … Continue reading A Prayer for Victims of the Post-Pandemic Pandemic
Don’t Stop Praying
“In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did whatever seemed right to him.” The book of Judges closes with these haunting words, a fitting summary of the final four chapters of the book, which give a picture of what it looks like when people do “whatever seems right” to them. And if … Continue reading Don’t Stop Praying
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