Tag: Pray

AFFL #046 Wrapping Up 2017 With A Wedding

Join us for AFFL #046 Wrapping up 2017 With A Wedding! We catch up on the big events (like our son’s wedding!) and also reminisce about trips to Bend, Oregon and Milwaukee, a Murder Mystery dinner, a Burns Night Supper, helping the kids move (3 times in 3 months!) and spending time with family from the East Coast. We talk…

When You Give, When You Pray, When You Fast

It is perhaps interesting to note that Christ never commands his disciples to read the Scriptures daily. Living in a culture which was largely illiterate and lacked the technology to produce books, it probably wouldn’t have done much good anyway 🙂 The vast majority of the people received the Word of God by hearing – not by reading. “But how…

Praying To Someone Other Than God

I’m actually writing this particular post specifically at the request of a friend of mine. Like many Protestants, the idea of praying to the saints – or more accurately, to anyone other than God – seems both incredibly bizarre to him and also un-biblical. I can sympathize. After all, I used to feel exactly the same way. In fact, this…