In Your Religious Exercises, Don’t Take Your Eyes Off Jesus
Jared Wilson:But it doesn’t last long, does it? Eventually he begins to sink beneath the waves and cries out for help. Why? Matthew 14:30 says it’s because he saw the strength of the wind. Peter had taken his eyes off Jesus. And yet, Jesus still held on to Peter.
We Are Unfinished, Yet He Loves Us
Lore Ferguson Wilbert:We live an unfinished life and every turn reveals more unfinished work in it. The angst inside us to arrive, feel complete, and fully accomplish eats away at us, a constant reminder that we’re not where we want to be. My secreted commitments to “do better” this year and your New Year Resolutions become eclipsed by real life instead of the easy, bullet-point, black and white steps we made them out to be. We can’t even compete with ourselves.
3 Methods to Keep You Praying
Trevin Wax:At the beginning of every year, we peruse the various plans for reading the Bible, but rarely do we find plans about developing the discipline of daily prayer. It’s not that we mean to avoid it. We know we need to pray. We know we’re called to it. We know that our lack of prayerfulness is a sign that we are unconscious of just how dependent we are upon God and that we are comfortable operating in our own strength. But still, how do we make it a regular practice? As someone who has struggled to be consistent and regular in daily praying, let me offer three methods that have helped me keep praying.
Why Church Planters Must Be Able to Teach
Tony Merida and Ross Lester discuss on the Acts 29 podcast.Adults and our Relationship to Jesus
Michael Kelley: