Visiting a South African mine in 1969, our guide placed a tapered ingot on a table between us. “This bar weighs 30 pounds. It’s worth US$20,000 (about $650,000 today). If anyone can pick it up, they can have it.” My fingers slipped […]
When we pray for the sick, if we’re honest, most of the time we’re praying in hope—hoping something will happen this time. At the back of our minds are all those occasions when nothing happened. We prayed for Aunt Elsa. She died. […]
When Jesus healed the sick, stilled the storm, and cursed the fig tree, he didn’t pray. His relationship with Abba was closer than ours. But only three times in the New Testament did people pray before ministry, and they teach us valuable […]