When it comes to prayer, we don’t know how or – if we're honest – whether it works. Archbishop William Temple once remarked, “When I pray, coincidences happen; and when I don’t, they don’t.”
This brings to mind the great golfer who, when someone accused him of being lucky, agreed, but commented that he’d noticed that the more he practiced the luckier he got.
Similarly, the more we pray, the luckier we get. Lucky in the sense Eugene Peterson uses the word: “lucky with holy luck,” which is a way of describing blessing.
Prayer makes us luckier than before—it invites and invokes the purposeful presence of God.
Luckier Than Before
August 26, 2018 • Graeme Sellers
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Upside Down Kingdom
December 30, 2018 • Dirk Duhlstine
God says: 1. If you want to be great… be a servant 2. To find yourself…you must die to yourself 3. To get back at your enemy…you should love him 4. To become rich… give money away God's kingdom is an upside down kingdom! When we clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience and love…which is clothing ourselves with the person and nature of http://christ...we’re clothing ourselves for battle.
Words Create Worlds
December 23, 2018 • Graeme Sellers
Our words create worlds. The words we speak shape and create world we live in. Words have always created worlds. It’s true. How was our world made? Words. Ten times in the creation account of Genesis 1 we read this: “And God said…” Their impact is captured in Genesis 2:1 “Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.” Gen. 1:28 reports that we are made in God’s image, so why should it surprise us that our words have creative power as well? God would urge us to listen to ourselves, to pay attention to the words we speak and the worlds they create.
What's the Point?
December 16, 2018 • Graeme Sellers
What’s the point of this – the Sunday morning church gathering that is, for many of us, a regular part of our lives? What if the point isn’t what we think it is, or is more than we imagined it is? God isn’t afraid of honest inquiry or the fierce conversation, and the answers to this question may surprise and delight us!