(7 minute read) “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know (Jeremiah 33:3, NIV).” Dallas Willard wrote a wonderful book called Hearing God. The book challenges followers of Jesus to actually believe that they can...
(5 minute read) “The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want (Psalm 23:1, ESV).” Sometimes when I read about the life of George Müller, I get a little discouraged. If faith was like a car, I drive a Model T Ford while Müller cruised in a Lamborghini. His trust was a...
(6 minute read) “Pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people (Ephesians 6:18, NIV) You probably have never heard of Dave Karnes. But on September 11, 2001, when...
(7 minute read) “…without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him (Hebrews 11:6, NIV).” In 2020, I saw a news story of a sixty-four-year-old man in France who...
(7 minute read) “Thy will be done (Matthew 6:10, KJV).” My wife, Jen, was once driving on the interstate when her tire exploded. If that sounds dramatic, it was. Not only did the tire burst, shredding and hurling rubber everywhere, it also damaged the wheel well...
Mira and Sasha Zivanov serve among the immigrant community in and around St. Louis, Missouri, predominantly working with refugees from the former Yugoslavia, which includes the countries of Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia. Originally from Yugoslavia, Mira and Sasha are uniquely able to minister to...
(7 minute read) “I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies…In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears (Psalm 18:3,6, ESV).” For four decades...
(5 minute read) "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours (Mark 11:24, NIV).” When we moved from Dallas to Knoxville, my wife Jen and I had an opportunity to put believing prayer into practice. Ten years...
(6 minute read) “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.” (Jeremiah 29:11-12) My friend Wesley pastors a church in Fort...
(6 minute read) “And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.” (Mark 11:25 ESV) Could a lack of forgiveness for someone be a reason that you don’t experience more...