few years ago, I bought the book Fervent by Priscilla Shirer. Reading that book, paired with her earlier film War Room, dramatically changed how I viewed prayer and spiritual warfare. I realized that for most of my life, I’d approached personal development and spiritual growth randomly, almost like I expected it to happen all on…
Every generation has had their own battle, and if I could take a wild guess at the battle this generation is facing I would say it is being distracted and over-stimulated. We have endless entertainment readily available at our fingertips 24/7. People of my generation and older remember when TV channels didn’t broadcast 24 hours…
The Church today is losing the battle. In my previous post, I shared the Lifeway Research findings that in America more churches are closing than are opening, and my own thoughts about that discovery. I wrote about my own struggles with offering fresh, spiritual food here on A Little R & R and how that…
If defeat is abnormal Christian living, why do we sometimes feel defeated….or even experience defeat? Is the Bible wrong when it teaches that we will be victorious over our enemies? Was David living in delusion when he said that God would not let him be defeated? Are Christians today living in a fantasy world, thinking…
Ephesians 6 tells us about the armor of God and gives us two weapons: God’s Word and prayer. But in Psalm 149, we discover another spiritual weapon: worship. At first glance, it may seem that this chapter is divided into two sections: the section that talks about praise and the section that talks about spiritual…
One of the great concerns I have for the body of Christ today is the image of God that we have created in our imaginations that doesn’t at all line up with the God of the Bible. Because we want to be liked by the world, and because we don’t want the world to point…
