We assume if there is a God that He is going to speak. But He didn't have to. If we are going to know Him however, we need Him to…

I’ve been reading books on spirituality, recently. I think it’s a little bit of a funny word. It’s not a word the Bible uses a lot. But I get what people mean, I think. What does it look like to have a good everyday relationship with God?…

I wonder if there are promises in the Bible you have a hard time believing. I think for me some of the promises in the Bible I have the hardest time believing are the promises God makes about prayer…

One of the reasons unanswered prayer is a problem is because of all we have in the Bible that leads us to think God will answer our prayers. In the Bible God makes some really big and awesome promises regarding what happens when a Christian…

We're talking about the problem of unanswered prayer: If God is in control and God really listens to our prayers and if God loves me, why doesn't He answer my prayers the way I want…

Exodus chapter 2: Setting: Israel...in Egypt. Problem: God's people...slaves, being treated cruelly. Response: They begin to pray…

To understand why God doesn't always answer our prayers, we have to start by understanding that to understand why God doesn’t always answer our prayers the way we want we have understand we are not always going to fully understand why God doesn’t always answer our prayers the way we want…

It is very easy to get discouraged about prayer. You know how it goes. You hear a message about the power of prayer. You go home and you start to pray, and nothing seems to happen…

We have been talking about the power of prayer at church. And it is not unusual for people to hear sermons about the power of prayer and to get excited and to go home and to start to pray and then to come crashing down a…

We are thinking about the problem of unanswered prayer. But before we even attempt to understand a good solution to this problem, we are identifying some clearly wrong answers we are tempted to believe…

You will never get the right answer when you are asking the wrong questions. This means if you are struggling to understand why God is not answering your prayers the way you would like, and you are asking, is it because God does not know what is going on…

I was recently asked to talk about how to talk about sexual purity with your children. I suppose because I have nine children myself, this is an important subject for me to think about…

Talking with your kids about sexual purity doesn't begin with talking to them about sexual purity. We are looking at what we can learn from the way Paul teaches on sexual purity that we can apply to our own conversations with our children…

It’s going to be difficult to teach your children what the Bible teaches about sexual purity, if you yourself are not really serious about what the Bible teaches about sexual purity…

How do we talk to our children about sexual purity? Over the past several posts, we have suggested: 1. We need to talk about sexual purity…

As we have been thinking through how to talk with our children about sexual purity, we have noted: 1.) We need to talk about sexual purity. 2.) We need to talk about more than sexual purity…

If you want to help your children in their fight for sexual purity you will want to help them work on developing a self-sacrificial lifestyle from a very young age…

If you are going to send your children into battle you need to prepare them to fight. It’s not just enough to have a one time talk with them where you say, 'This is really bad. Don't do that.'..

What is the responsibility of believing parents, and especially, hear that, especially, believing fathers? We can break Paul’s answer down into two parts. 1. We see that we have a responsibility not to parent in such a way that makes it easier for our children to sin…

You don't always connect the word nurturer with the word father.But Paul does. He says, fathers, bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.But what does that mean specifically…