How do you Pray for Fellow Believers?

This post was originally written by Peter for Biblical Preaching. We hope you visit it and enjoy. —————– There is a strange phenomena in the church when it comes to praying for people.  Obviously this is a generalisation, but I have observed it enough to suggest that it may be a pattern. When people become …

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Lovers of Love

Near the end of the Song of Solomon the bride speaks of love as an uncontrollable force that cannot be quenched or overpowered. Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, …

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A New Way

The early church father, Irenaeus, offered bread for hungry hearts.  Here’s something from him I find helpful in coming to a new year.  He wrote sometime around AD 180. “God recapitulated in Himself the ancient formation of man, that He might kill sin, deprive death of its power, and vivify man” [Against Heresies, book 3.18.7, …

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