Lord, please help us to pray now, and teach us how to pray. We thank you for the way our playgroup spreads the good news of your love to so many people who don’t get to hear it in other places. We thank you so much for answering our prayers as a church to provide …
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Prayer for Zimbabwe, DRC, divorced and separated people, healing, people who aren’t Christians
Lord, we ask you to help us pray now, and to be teaching us how to pray through our whole lives. We ask that you take our ambition to become a house of prayer and make it a reality: inspire us and encourage us in our prayer, and please show us now where you want …
Prayer for Congo
God, where are you in Congo? Were you there in Luvungi when 242 people were raped last month? Were you there in Uvira when 21 children were raped? Were you crying with them? God, please help them. We beg you to step in. Have we not prayed enough? Don’t we have enough faith? Were we …
Forcing things and handing over power
My relationship with God has been sinking for a while now. Nothing dramatic – just more of my usual dread of prayer, and more of a dead feeling when I do try to pray, and less relief of the feeling that there is nothing there. I’ve been somewhat at a loss as to what to …
It’s ok to have children without getting married now, isn’t it?
The title of this post is what someone said to me today, as a pointed accusation that I am secretly intolerant. I changed the subject and felt hurt that they wanted to do this, and now I feel guilty I didn’t respond properly, so I’m going to try and make myself feel better by writing …
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Why do I believe in God?
Because it seems true. Why don’t you believe in God? Because it seems untrue. Where do we go from here?
Time
[Another post from ~] My wrestle with God is about how I find it difficult to do the one thing he asks me to do; Spend time with Him. There are no doubt many reasons for my neglect of God but I just don’t know where one is expected to find the time. And I …
Where do you go when things start falling apart?
[This article was emailed to me by ~] This is my very real question. There are times when you seek family or friends and there is time when you seek God. My question is when you have tried all known routes and still things appear not to work – where do you go then? Is …
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Site going static for a while
Hi everyone. Being utterly sick of my web space provider, and currently investigating other options, I’m going to move this site very soon to some static web space while I get myself sorted. Let me know if you see any problems, and sorry if the transition loses anything – let me know if so.
What is Jesus view on martial arts?
Hi-ya! Ever since I was eight years old after seeing how practical it can be, I always wanted to take up some form of martial arts. At the time I probably knew the names of about six disciplines or so. That is how interested I was. Sadly, for some reason or other it didn’t really …