First Mennonite Morton

As we have been focusing on prayer through this year, my eyes have been on the lookout for various prayers that are offered to the Lord from the various writers of Scripture.  This week, I was struck by the prayer which the Apostle Paul prayed for the church of the Thessalonians at the end of chapter 3. 

He wrote, “May the Lord...

Charles Spurgeon once said, “Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus. It is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.”  

Indeed, directly seeking the face of God and laying our anxieties at His...

What makes a man?  As a father of three sons, I think about this often as we play, talk, and experience life together.  Whether I like it or not, their primary understanding of manhood will come from me – what I say, how I act, what I value, etc.  Yet my goal, is to continue to lead them beyond myself and to Jesus and...

There are many common experiences that Christians all share.  Typically these experiences (like cronic pain, the struggles of parenting, the difficultly of offering forgiveness or methods of coping with the abruptness of death) become the subject of conversation as prayer requests are shared. 

However, the experience of spiritual...

Occasionally as I’m reading the New Testament, I try to imagine how I would respond to various situations, teachings or events if they had taken place in our modern day.  Suppose that you were at your cousin’s wedding when some unknown thirty year-old named Jesus turned water into excellent tasting wine.  Or imagine being...

Nearly every part of life within our family includes ‘preparing’ right now.  (Not to be with 'prepping' which means to stockpile water bottles, rice and firewood for some post-apocalyptic world).  We are preparing to send our older children back to school by purchasing supplies and meeting with their teachers.  We are...