I got laid off on Monday. Saw it coming. Business at the shop was super-slow this month. Our paychecks were late for the third consecutive time. The boss is still ten days past due on the last payment. I don’t have any money. I had to exchange my change jar at the bank to cover [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘God’
September 23, 2009
The Right Way to Pray?
Illustration by Andrew Rae
This is an excellent article on modern prayer from this week’s New York Times Magazine: The Right Way to Pray? The author, Zev Chafets, a Jew, explores the different ways Jewish and Judeo-Christian sects pray and how their prayer has changed over the last several decades and why. It also discusses how, [...]
August 22, 2008
God rides a bike
“It was God’s way of saying, ‘It’s time to put a stop to this’ ”
These words spoken by Inspector Bryce Evans of the Toronto police, 14 Division, refer to the moment when Igor Kenk was caught in the act of stealing a bicycle. Which wouldn’t be a big deal except that it would’ve been yet another [...]
July 17, 2008
true fasting
My pastor delivered a moving sermon last Sunday. He called our congregation to be a community marked by our compassion for the poor. He read from Isaiah 58 and I was shaken by these verses. I had read them before but now they seemed so much more important.
I’ve spent most of the first nine years [...]
July 5, 2008
revival
I was going to try to write a fair analysis of the Lakeland Revival. I was going to write just a topical entry about Todd Bentley and the “revival” in Lakeland, Florida. I was going to leave it up to you to judge for yourself whether this man is from God or not. But I’ve [...]
