Why Suffering?

Sooner or later, the heart of everybody’s spiritual problem is “What we do with our pain? Why is there evil? Why is there suffering?” Job begs God for an answer to this mystery, and he can’t get one. He only begins to trust when he no longer feels ignored, when he knows that God...
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Psalm 90 — A Prayer of Moses

Psalm 90 A prayer of Moses: The man of God Rewritten by Jon Bannon Version One YOU ARE GOD, WE ARE DUST. WE QUICKLY PASS AND ARE GONE. IF ONLY WE KNEW. TEACH US. HAVE COMPASSION ON US. SATISFY US. MAKE US GLAD. SHOW US. ESTABLISH THE WORK OF [Y]OUR HANDS FOR US. YOU ARE OUR...
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A Lenten prayer for Creation

God, all of created life is groaning, waiting for the future God has prepared for us. We hope for the day on which all you have made will be rescued from death and decay. We wait for the redemption of our bodies and the restoration of our world. God in this season of hope and...
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Praying in Crisis

When we call out for help, we are bound more powerfully to God through our needs and weakness, our unfulfilled hopes and dreams, and our anxieties and problems than we ever could have been through our joys, successes, and strengths alone. . . . Anxieties can gray the whole sky...
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The Value of Sabbath

Sabbath Rest Boosts Better Than Vitamins Not only do we need to reconnect to the holiness of time and God’s sacred intended rhythms for us in our day-to-day activities but also we need him to govern our week and our year. God intends to reign over all that we do. There is no...
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