The Scariest Prayer You Can Pray
“How open are you to humiliation?” my pastor asked me.
“How open are you to humiliation?” my pastor asked me.
“I want someone to worship me,” said Allen…
We can each name half a dozen songs about being alone in a crowded room, or maybe while sitting next to a lover, but is that really loneliness?
It sounds weird for me to tell you to pray, because to you, it may seem like speaking words into an empty room…
Your body was in my arms but you were not.
Am I the only one
who feels distant from God
more often than near?
I stood by the Light Rail tracks waiting for my train into downtown Denver, wondering if I still believed inContinue Reading
The cure for loneliness has little to do with our external circumstances and almost everything to do with the weather going on inside of us. Michael Cusick describes it this way: “When you are empty, being alone with yourself is almost always a scary thing. But when you are full, it’s almost always a joy—like being with a good friend.”
So, for the past year or so, God has been showing me many illustrations for the spiritual life of aContinue Reading
We stood outside the biggest club in Chicago with a pizza box sign that read Free Prayer. The first manContinue Reading