“I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus,” Philippines 1:3-6, NIV. On Sunday, August 10, 2025, God called me into a partnership of prayer with Him. God had asked me to cover the church in prayer that summer, for our sermon se

“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows,” Psalms‬ ‭23‬:‭5‬, ‭NIV‬‬. What does Psalm 23 mean “in the presence of my enemies?” Who’s the enemy? I have always pictured a table with those in whom I have something against. They have wronged me in some way. But the truth or reality might be that the enemies present at my particular feast, might be those in whom I have hurt, knowingly and unknowingly. I never think

“If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them,” James 4:17, NIV. There are times when I want to choose ignorance over knowledge. Last week I challenged us all to ask God to search us. I don’t know about you, but He searched me and found me wanting. I had slipped back into an epicurean lifestyle. Not a degenerate lifestyle like that of the Corinthian church, but a self-centered “me” lifestyle of my wants and desires over God’s. I have