We looked into three questions from the passage regarding the call of the twelve disciples. First, how he chose them. It was through prayer. He spent the whole night praying…
This passage teaches us three things about handling anxiety: (1) Acknowledge our anxiety. This means that we don’t deny or repress our negative emotions. We need to be able to…
Why are some prayers answered and some not? Pastor Kevin discusses biblical variables that affect the outcome of our prayers.
Prayer is one of the most powerful ways we engage in “spiritual warfare”. But in order to be effective we must see the battle we’re engaged in correctly. With God’s…
Many of us feel stuck in the miry pit of our guilt and shame, of a general sense of brokenness, failure, and unworthiness. From the depths of our guilt and…
What do we do with all the sorrow, grief, pain, and tears in our lives? Some religious people tell us to repress our emotions; some secular people tell us to…
Human beings are drawn to prayer because of our limitations. What if we prayed not because of our limitations, but because we know who God is?
Many of us go through seasons of spiritual dryness. Kevin examined various potential causes of our spiritual dryness: (1) depression; (2) boredom with a form of prayer; (3) our sins;…
It is a little shocking to say this, but it is true: You don’t have to pray out of obligation if you don’t want to. God loves you even if…
Many of us walk around with emotional hurts and pains. Sometimes they can be debilitating. They can be caused by many things. Sometimes we experience deep depression due to a…
Each of us has a default “prayer-style”—the way we have been taught and grown accustomed to praying. Often our default prayer-style is one in which prayer is utilized like a…
The primary storyline of the Bible is God desiring to be with us. He loves us and wants to be with us. Prayer is conversation with God. Prayer is a…
If God is all-powerful and loving and he is sovereign, what can we do to change anything? God’s got everything planned and everything in control; so, why should we pray?…
The early church was a praying church and I believe God is calling us to be a praying church. He’s calling us to pray together. Prayer is the spring from…