Is Prayer Effective When Our Situation Doesn’t Change?

In my last post I wrote how prayer is primarily designed not to move God to action, but to move us. That is not to assert that God does not listen to our prayers, or isn’t active in our world. He does, and is. It is, however, an acknowledgement that a God who is good and who is characterized by...

The Prayer That Moves Mountains

Jesus says that when we have faith in God and pray, we can move mountains (Matthew 21:21-22). Makes you wonder why more mountains aren’t moved. I think we tend to look at Jesus’ statement with an understanding that the moving of mountains is God’s work. We ask in faith for the mountain to be thrown into the...

Rejecting Jesus for All the Wrong Reasons

I’m tired of people rejecting Jesus for all the wrong reasons. Whatever else you may say about the Romans and the temple leaders in 1st century Israel, at least they rejected Jesus for the right reasons. Pilate and Caiaphas may have been power-hungry, exploitative, greedy, fearful, violent and...