When praying powerful prayers, we can expect spiritual attack. It is part of the life of the spirit, and we are spiritual beings. I think it is important to help our kids understand spiritual attack, …
Unanswered Prayers, Part II
Last week was a rough one for our school community. We said farewell for now, though not forever, to two of our school dads: one who God took home after a protracted illness, one so suddenly we’re …
Unanswered Prayers, Part I
I used to love Garth Brooks. I guess I still do. One of my favorites of his was “Unanswered Prayers.” It’s the bittersweet story of a guy who prayed and prayed in his youth that the Lord would allow …
The God Who Listens
Isn’t it funny how one word, one phrase read differently can change the entire meaning of a story? I was reading an article by Gordon Grose in this month’s Christianity Today about how a …
Be Still
For the past several weeks, I’ve been writing about praying powerful prayers, which happens to be this year’s theme for our school. This past summer, the Lord taught me some valuable things about …
Fervent Prayers
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been writing about praying powerful prayers, and how so much of the effectiveness of our prayers is relational, tied up in our views of God and how He sees us, as …