Last week I attended a retreat with the Citywide Prayer Movement here in KC. I got to meet some new people and experience a slice of evangelicalism outside my usual circle, which is the context for this story.
During a prolonged time of prayer at the retreat, we prayed for a guy who had recently undergone [...]
Finishing with grad school allowed me to get back to some of the important things of life, like sleeping and having a life of the mind. If you know me, chances are good you’re aware that I love the writing of C.S. Lewis. It’s one of those primary facts, like “Lindsay is my wife,” “I’m [...]
Don’t miss “Spurgeon is the Man Week” at the Resurgence site. Here’s a piece from the third installment in the series, which is mining Spurgeon’s remarkable life for what he can teach us:
Prayer
Spurgeon prayed both spontaneously by breaking from the affairs of his day to speak with the Lord, and also during scheduled times of [...]
We have as much control over “in a minute” as we do over a random moment in the next millenium, so our best bet is to pray, then happily flail away:
The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God’s care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next [...]
N.T. Wright makes the point that all God’s people are called to pray but apostolic leaders more so than the rest. He derives this from the passage in Acts where Peter, James, John, etc., appointed new leaders so that they, the apostles, could devote themselves to prayer and the teaching of God’s word.
This makes perfect [...]
