Mark 9:24

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts. Never doubt your beliefs and believe your doubts. Never let what you don’t understand destroy what you do understand.…

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts. Never doubt your beliefs and believe your doubts. Never let what you don’t understand destroy what you do understand.…

How do we hold on to our faith when someone we care about has cancer? When our parent, spouse, child or friend only has months to live, our faith takes a beating. We might wonder if God is willing to heal our loved one. Or if He’s able to sustain us as we watch their illness progress.…

10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.In response to these verses I can only echo the prayer “I believe; help my unbelief!” Mark 9:24 (ESV)Because of my struggle to fully appropriate these promises, my prayers are often whiny and insipid when they should be bold and passionate.I suppose the answer to this has something to do with deepening my relationship with God so that I am increasingly aware of God’s desires for me and my world. For example, the computer on which I am writing this has a screen that often turns everything blue and is old technology, but it still works. Am I just being selfish with such a prayer?I suppose I can pray passionately about the computer with the realization that if it is not something that God wants, he will not provide it.Perhaps the answer is to let loose the passion in prayer with the expectation that God will direct that passion for his purposes.…

What do you do when you don’t get the answer to the prayer you wanted? I’m sitting in a hospital room with my son while I write this. He had a challenge for his peanut allergy today (where he eats peanut butter and they gauge his reaction to see if he still has the allergy) and it didn’t go well.…

And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.” -Mark 9:24, KJV Like this father, sometimes we need help with our unbelief. I believe anxiety (non-medical kind) and fear are rooted in unbelief in God’s goodness towards us. More specifically, we struggle to believe … Continue reading “Fear and Anxiety Rooted in Unbelief”…

Why Start Your Faith Journey with the Book of John by Brenda Wood. As we learn to believe, we will learn to trust, and the more we do that, the more we will pray and obey.…

My mother passed away last week. She was 83. There comes a time in most people’s lives when both of their parents have gone, and no matter what other family…

Hello World!!! As I said in a previous post, my Bible study class is reading the book of Genesis and apparently, we will go through the entire Bible over the course of several months… Since I grew up in church, I have read passages in probably most of the books of the Bible over the course […]…

And Jesus said to him, “’If You can?’ All things are possible to him who believes.” Mark 9:23 Sometimes as I contemplate the seemingly insurmountable obstacles ahead, believing that God is at work seems like a far-off dream.…