Learning How to Pray – Part 3

Learning How to Pray – Part 3

In the previous blog, we examined the ‘a’ in the acrostic ASK. We saw how God gives us some of his treasure simply based on our asking. That’s because He is a good Father who knows what we need before we ask Him. So, the question remains, ‘why do we need to ask if he...
Learning How to Pray – Part 2

Learning How to Pray – Part 2

In our first blog in this series, I introduced the acrostic ASK from Matthew 7:7-8. One way to look at what Jesus teaches here is to view each letter of the acrostic as describing the attitude Jesus expects us to have in order to receive his treasure. Some treasure is...
Learning How to Pray – Part 1

Learning How to Pray – Part 1

In Luke’s introduction to the Lord’s Prayer (Luke 11), the disciples observed Jesus praying alone. Seeing Him commune with the Father, one of them asked, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” That occasion led the Lord to give them that prayer we...
Suffering and Glory  – Part 3

Suffering and Glory – Part 3

Christ’s Suffering: The Centerpiece of Human History   “And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders, I saw a lamb standing as though it had been slain.”                                  Revelation 5:6...
Suffering and Glory: Part 2

Suffering and Glory: Part 2

Christ Our Example For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you,...
Suffering and Glory Part 1

Suffering and Glory Part 1

Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what a person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent...