Prayer
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The Surprising End of Matthew 9
My college buddy Mike once determined to radically obey Jesus’ command to “give to anyone who asks of you.” So, walking down the streets of Chicago, he committed to give something to every homeless person who asked. And then he went on a trip to India with the same plan…and gave up. There was just too much… Continue reading
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The Way is Hard That Leads to Life
If you think it’s cold outside, you should read the book I recently finished: Endurance, the incredible tale of Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic catastrophe. If you don’t know the story, in August of 1914, Shackleton’s ship Endurance set off from Britain with hearty souls planning to traverse the great southern continent of Antarctica, a feat never… Continue reading
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How to Find Restoration in the Midst of a Broken Life
“Rog, we’ve decided not to send you to the Philippines. We wanted to send someone who was actually…walking with God.” The words of my Navigator leader Dave Ostendorf stung pretty deeply. Had it really come to this? My good friend Carl Bergstrom and I had been slated to be summer missionaries to the Philippines in… Continue reading
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Reflections before the National Day of Prayer
I’m working on a theory. It just occurred to me yesterday when I was home for lunch, and Diane and the girls were about to pray for Tehran. (They are praying for the world as part of their homeschooling curriculum.) Here’s my idea: I wonder if God is especially pleased when we give ourselves to prayer for… Continue reading
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Shower Power
Want to add power to your shower? We did something at Edgewood about 5 or 6 years ago that we’re going to reprise this coming weekend: we’ll be passing out (laminated) Shower Power prayer cards. It’s all in conjunction with our Year of Prayer emphasis in 2012. The idea is simple. Most of us shower… Continue reading
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Closing Thoughts on Prayer
40 days of prayer are here and gone. Time flies. It’s March now, which is a happy word during Wisconsin winters, and though I know that snow still finds its way here (like today) the temperatures moderate a bit, and if spring isn’t quite in the air, at least hope is. So here are some final thoughts… Continue reading
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The Importance of Knowing God’s Great Love
I was favored with an earthly father who loved me a whole lot. I’ll never forget a day that Dad and I went out flying a kite when I was growing up in Antioch, Illinois. He was handling the kite as it flew high overhead, and then suddenly it began to twirl and twirl earthwards. … Continue reading
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Some Answers to Prayer From Our 40 Days…
We’ve been posting answers to prayer in the foyer of Edgewood in Waupun and in the commons area at North Fond du Lac High School. In case, you haven’t stopped to see what God is doing, Here are some of the answers (from Waupun) so far (I took the names out of one or two guessing that… Continue reading
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A Good Walk Not Spoiled
During my sophomore year at the University of Illinois, I joined a Bible Study led by a guy named Bill Wargula. Bill was probably a junior or senior at the time, but he was significantly older than the rest of us because he had already spent 6 years in the Air Force. In fact, as… Continue reading
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How Long Should I Pray?
The other evening Annie and I were about to watch a movie together – Rio, which turned out to be quite enjoyable – and yet I hadn’t had my prayer time for the day. Circumstances had conspired to put off our movie time, and realizing that sleep would come shortly after the show, I knew… Continue reading
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