When my prayer life gets relegated to time in the car between errands, I know my schedule is jammed past capacity. Can I pray in my car (or in the shower, or any other place I happen to find myself alone for a few minutes)? Of course! But if those quick snatches of time are... Continue Reading →
When I reached my last milestone birthday, my gift was to trade in our trusty silver mini-van, in which my husband and I had raised and carted around our five children and logged 235,000 miles, for a shiny red sports car. It was a lot prettier and had a whole lot more power! The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines... Continue Reading →
In my own house—the one I live in, I mean—I go into different rooms to do different things, according to the different needs of our household. I go into the kitchen to prepare food, and the dining room to eat it. I spend time with family and friends in the living room. I sleep in... Continue Reading →
Even a cursory reading of Scripture should assure us that the world we live in has two realms—a physical realm and a spiritual realm. We might say that the natural one is material and the other realm is invisible or spiritual. But just because we can’t see the spiritual realm doesn’t make it any less real. It... Continue Reading →
When it comes to prayer, all roads do not lead to Rome, as they say. Jesus declared definitively that He alone is “the way, the truth, and the life." "No one can come to the Father except through me,” He said in John14:6. That's why the foundation of any "house of prayer" has to be... Continue Reading →
When my husband Doug and I were in the midst of building the home we raised our family in, he crawled beneath the front deck to get under the frame of the front door. There, just above the foundation, he inscribed the following passage: “The Lord our God, the Lord is one. We will love... Continue Reading →
Intercession Ignited 