Christianity Today called How to Pray “an instant spiritual classic.” Read the first chapter or click here to buy the book at your favorite retailer or navpress.com. This perennial top-selling title, A Praying Life, has been described as, “Honest, realistic, …
Jesus does not say, “Come to me, all you who have learned how to concentrate in prayer, whose minds no longer wander, and I will give you rest.” No, Jesus opens his arms to his needy children and says, “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28, NASB). The criteria for coming to Jesus is…
Our best times together as a family are at dinner. At home after a meal, we push our dishes aside and linger together over coffee or hot chocolate. We have no particular agenda; we simply enjoy one another. Listening, talking, …
Cynicism is, increasingly, the dominant spirit of our age. When I say that cynicism is the spirit of the age, I mean it is an influence, a tone that permeates our culture, one of the master temptations of our age. …