Tag archive for ‘Prayer’
Direction and Discernment
I often am hesitant about making what I see as big life decisions. Where does God want me? What does He have planned for me, and how can I remain faithful to those plans? In Numbers 9:15-23, Moses describes how the people of Israel were led through their desert times after the Exodus. A cloud [...]
Real New Life
The following is adapted from a sermon I preached on New Years Day, 2010, at Edinburg SDA Church. As such, apologies for the length.
A couple weeks ago, I spent sometime setting up an artificial christmas tree in my little apartment in Boston. I had just bought the tree for fifteen dollars; it was about six [...]
Lesson 11: Immorality on the Border
The lesson focuses on Numbers 25, and should speak to many in Church during these last days. Like the Church today, Israel was at the border of the promised land, having gone through hard years of wandering in the desert, time and again God manifesting His grace, power, and, when Israel strayed, wrath. They were [...]
Learning in the silence
I wanted to write something deep for you. And I have been torturing myself mentally all week trying and waiting for God to give me that something profound that would make you stop and think while you’re standing in line at the supermarket cashier or sitting on the subway on the way home.
But I came [...]
The All-Nighter’s Hangover
Just before prayer, the fire alarm went off. We were wrapping up the end of our weekly Adventist Youth (A.Y.) program, when the loud noise flooded the church. Israel jokingly remarked, “The church is on fire with the Holy Spirit.” I knew then, I could not go home just yet. [...]
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