“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
-
Lenten Focus: Iraq’s shrinking church
For more on my Lenten Focus, see my Ash Wednesday post. A quick summary is that I am spending Lent fasting and praying for the Persecuted Church and I invite you to join me. I’ll be honest, I didn’t really approach this series with a plan. I just knew that we had — I had — […]
-
Lenten Focus: Vietnamese Christians
For more on my Lenten Focus, see my Ash Wednesday post. A quick summary is that I am spending Lent fasting and praying for the Persecuted Church and I invite you to join me. Christians in hiding and fleeing communist persecution seems like a headline out of 1970, but it is the reality for Christians […]
-
Lenten Focus: the tiny Somali Church
For more on my Lenten Focus, see my Ash Wednesday post. A quick summary is that I am spending Lent fasting and praying for the Persecuted Church and I invite you to join me. The land of Black Hawk Down and horrific civil war, drought, and famine, Somalia has only a few hundred Christians […]
-
Lenten Focus: the Church in China
For more on my Lenten Focus, see my Ash Wednesday post. A quick summary is that I am spending Lent fasting and praying for the Persecuted Church and I invite you to join me. From International Christian Concern: “The lady is saying: ‘Thanks be to God, we need this book so much. When I see […]
-
Lenten Focus: Pray. Act. Give
For more on my Lenten Focus, see my Ash Wednesday post. A quick summary is that I am spending Lent fasting and praying for the Persecuted Church, and I invite you to join me. In Defense of Christians is calling for a Day of Action for Christians in the Middle East: As the global Christian […]
-
Lenten Focus: Kidnapped Assyrian Christians
For more on my Lenten Focus, see my Ash Wednesday post. A quick summary is that I am spending Lent fasting and praying for the Persecuted Church, and I invite you to join me. Early Monday, ISIS forces raided several villages in Syria and kidnapped dozens of Assyrian Christians. The man who drinks too […]
-
Reciting prayers
I am Protestant through and through. Moreover, I’m an American Evangelical. That means my prayers are spontaneous, unscripted, and required to have two to three “Father Gods” and at least three uses of “just” per prayer. While we may recite the Apostle’s creed once or twice a year and the Nicene Creed once a decade, […]
-
On hearing the news of the day
My mind automatically goes to this scripture: Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and […]
-
The prayer of a righteous person
Years ago, my grandmother had a stroke. She couldn’t remember her name,or her husband or my mom. She was confused about almost everything, but she kept saying, “I don’t know who I am, but I know my Jesus loves me.” Her faith is so deeply rooted that in a time of great distress it brought her […]
-
Praying for peace
Pope Francis has called for a day of prayer and fasting for Syria. I’m not Catholic, but I don’t think Pope Francis will mind me joining in. Whatever our opinions on the correct action for the United States to take in this war, people are hurting. Innocents are suffering and dying. We should be in […]
Clean Notebook is a captivating Full Site Editing (FSE) theme that beautifully captures the essence of simplicity and minimalism.
Main Pages
Useful Links
Follow Us
Copyright © Clean Notebook, 2023. All rights reserved.