"Through Christ Our Lord, Amen."

This is from an e-mail devotional I receive called Richard’s Daily Meditations. I thought today’s on prayer was especially insightful. Selah! Enjoy!

Question of the day:
How can I be God’s conduit?

[Notice that] all of the great liturgical prayers of the churches end with the same phrase: “through Christ our Lord, Amen.” We do not pray to Christ; we pray through Christ. Or even more precisely, Christ prays through us. We are always and forever the conduits, the instruments, the tuning forks, the receiver stations (Romans 8:22-27). We slowly learn the right frequencies that pick up the signal.

The core task of all good spirituality is to teach us to “cooperate” with what God already wants to do and has already begun to do (Romans 8:28). In fact, nothing good would even enter our minds unless in the previous moment God had not already “moved” within us. We are always and forever merely seconding the motion.

On Prayer …

“It is good to debate the mysteries of prayer, to ponder the profundities of prayer, to learn the methods of prayer. It is better to pray.

“Prayer is a little like an automobile: you do not have to understand everything about its inner workings for it to get you somewhere. I have found that if we simply pray – even if we pray in wrong ways – God is pleased with our feeble efforts and Jesus lovingly guides us into more excellent ways. Also, we can be assured that the blessed Holy Spirit will adjust, correct, and interpret our prayer before the throne of God.”
(Richard Foster, Devotional Classics, p. 131.)

JK Divorce Dance (The Sequel to the Wedding Dance)

Baby "Blood" … Funny Video

Check out this funny video clip. Clip here to see on YouTube.

My Brother Getting Tazed!

This is my brother Ben who volunteered to test out a tazer at his job. 50,000 volts of electricity! He’s a nut! DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!!!

Fall Kick Off Service … Debut of our Youth Choir!

Tommy’s Coming Home!

This evening I got a message that Tommy and Naomi Pierro are booked on a flight to come home on Thursday night! I was pleasantly surprised by this news as I was anticipating that he would have another week in the hospital, and then I thought they would probably want to keep him around the San Diego area for a few days for observation to ensure everything was OK. But, I guess after having his chest tubes taken out and with his breathing levels being maintained, they feel he is good to go, so praise the Lord! This is a real answer to prayer for Tommy personally as he wanted to be home in time for his cousin’s wedding this Friday.

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