Prayer for the Turning of the Year

  Thank you for building my faith in 2011 for___________(insert your own experience). Faith is your gift. Unless you strengthen my trust, I will sink into the mud of unbelief. Let my faith, hope, and love increase  in 2012. Thank you for showing me again, that you are  bigger than __________(insert fear). In 2011, you’ve …

A Christmas Prayer

  Thank you, Father, for sending your word made flesh to that smelly Bethlehem stable. Your odd, nearly unbelievable advent.  Your lethal weapon against this world’s destructive ruler. A soft-skinned flailing infant. Your weakness stronger than our strength. Thank you for embodied hope. For peace and promise. For abundant expectation in the kingdom that has come, …

Free to Say Yes

Do you or do you know someone who struggles with sex because of molestation? Here’s how Jerry and I cooperated with God for healing.  From Christianity Today’s Marriage Partnership newsletter: http://www.kyria.com/topics/marriagefamily/marriage/helphealing/sayyes.html?start=3 Blessings to you. For the next six weeks or so, I’m taking a break.  I will be back with new words in mid to …