“Prayer, whatever else it may be, is not calling God’s attention to things He’s not aware of, nor is it urging Him to do His duty. No, its rather a conversation in which we speak our minds and God speaks His. We talk and we listen until we get into His mind and He gets […]
The Business of Prayer
The Touchable God
“The Christian idea of God as a loving Father is interwoven into the very fabric of our mind and heart; but it was a new idea. To the Jew the basic idea of God was that he was holy in the sense of being different. In no sense did he share our human experience and was in fact incapable […]
That’s my King
Dr Shadrach Meshach Lockridge (March 7, 1913 – April 4, 2000), former Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, San Diego, at his very best.
What is Worship?
What is our gathering together on a Sunday morning all about? Here’s a few serious and not so serious contributions to the discussion…
The Inside of the Longing
All our yearning, our stretching out, our hope, our thirst for God – this is something He has created in us so that He might fill and satisfy us. It is not our wanting that sets us on this journey, but His. Our desire He has created within us so we might know His desire […]