Imaginative Prayer: Experiencing God
Our journey into imaginative prayer has taken us through objections and answers, entering a gospel scene, Jesus’ presence with us, and inner healing. For this last post, I want to offer some suggestions on experiencing God in imaginative prayer through Bible reading. I have touched on this in previous posts, but now I want to […]
Imaginative Prayer: Inner Healing
In the last post, I tried to explain how using our imaginations could help us experience Jesus in the present and future. In this post, I want to go the opposite direction: experiencing His presence in our past. This form of imaginative prayer is called inner healing. But what possible benefit could there be in […]
Imaginative Prayer: Jesus With You
In the last post on imaginative prayer, I described a type of praying in which you imagine a gospel scene. Here you enter the story of Jesus and meet Him there. For this post, I want to go in the opposite direction. What would it be like for Jesus to enter your story and […]
Imaginative Prayer: Entering A Gospel Scene
In the last post, I argued for the validity of using our imagination in prayer. But accepting its validity is only a first step. Experiencing its transformative power provides its own self-validation. So for the next few posts, I want to offer various types of imaginative prayer with the hope that you will try these […]
Imaginative Prayer: Objections and Answers
For the next several posts, I want to explore a topic that once aroused suspicion in me. Now it is something I love to experience and share with men. It’s a form of praying that goes by many names. I’m going to call it in its simplest terms — imaginative prayer. Here, instead of using […]
The Coronavirus Choice: Finding the Good
We are now moving into the second month of this pandemic. The effects of it have been challenging in some places, tragic in others. While I do not want to mitigate in any way the sufferings that some have endured, I do think there is another side. There is a rather large silver lining to […]
The Coronavirus Choice: Anxious or Grateful
During this past month, I have met weekly in the mornings with a small group of men, first in person and then, like everyone else, online. We share our experiences of praying through the same passage of Scripture. It is so life-giving to hear how God is working in the lives of these friends. But […]
The Coronavirus Choice: Survive or Thrive
As the viral crisis bears down on this country, I continue this series. Last week the choice dealt with responding in fear or love. This week, let me start this way. If you listen only to the news, it is easy to move into panic mode. So many social props are being tossed aside or […]
The Coronavirus Choice: Fear or Love
As the present viral crisis deepens, we are all facing something I have never experienced in my lifetime. So much is being said and written, some of it helpful, some not so much. So I have decided to take the next few posts to speak into this. This first post will be on the crucial […]
St. Patrick, The Man Behind the Holiday
St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner. We mostly think of wearing green to celebrate, but the man behind the holiday has held a growing fascination for me. Perhaps it’s because he lived as a missionary, something I wanted to become when I was a young man. Or perhaps it’s the autobiography he wrote, […]