When Life Overwhelms – A Simple Prayer for Pentecost Sunday

This coming Sunday we celebrate an important event in redemptive history... the time when Jesus sent the "other helper" who would live within us and empower us for service. Almighty Father we come to you in the blessed name of our Savior Jesus Christ. You have been sending your Spirit for a long time. You sent your … Continue reading When Life Overwhelms – A Simple Prayer for Pentecost Sunday

Unremoved Thorns and Unanswered Prayers

What is it that we are to learn from the Apostle Paul’s thorn that is not removed in spite of his focused prayers for its removal? See 2 Corinthians 12:7-10. Many would claim that Paul did not have sufficient enough faith or else it would have been removed. However, this is completely contrary to God's … Continue reading Unremoved Thorns and Unanswered Prayers

The Healing of All Suffering – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage... that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the … Continue reading The Healing of All Suffering – Fyodor Dostoyevsky