Why I’m Not Live-Blogging

I’d thought, for just a moment, that perhaps I could blog while attending the Desiring God Ministries National Conference this weekend. Well, after viewing about a dozen people whacking away at their keyboards, either during the opening session or following, I determined my entries would be fairly futile. So, if you’d like a good summary, [...]

Cornerstone Prayer Time Meditations

Humility & Boldness. What do they have to do with one another? Don’t they contradict each other? In the flesh, yes; but in the Christian’s heart in matters of prayer, no. Humility, for the Christian, is found by looking at ourselves, seeing who we are in light of God’s holiness. Boldness is found by looking [...]

Cornerstone Prayer Time Meditations

Humble Prayer
Luke 18.13 (ESV) – But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
Humility is a character trait we ought to highly value. Yet the moment we value our own humility, it loses all value. The [...]

I’m not normal!!

WooHoo! I knew it and now it’s been confirmed!
Thanks to Lisa over at Deo Volente. In her post today, she had completed one of those goofy, meaningless online surveys to determine that she was far from normal. She scored a 36.
Ha! I took the silly thing and it confirmed it:
Are You Normal?
Your Normalcy Quotient [...]

Quick Post on Pride vs. Humility

I’m barely keeping my nose above water, as they say. However, I came across this today and wanted to submit it in my thoughts about pride. I’m not sure why pride came to mind, but humility never once crossed my thoughts (or my vision as I watched the presentation). Nice to see a church that [...]

Cornerstone Prayer Time Meditations

Arrogant Prayers
"The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’" (Luke 18.11-12, ESV)
The Pharisees weren’t always this way, full of arrogance, pride, self-righteousness. When [...]

Those Girls Are At It Again!

If I had actually heard these words spoken out loud, I might have thought back to years ago when my sister would have friends over to play. They get into something, get themselves in trouble and these would be some of the words either Mom or Dad would utter.
But this has nothing to do with [...]

Hello world!

Well, I’m going to begin trying out WordPress. In the last week and a half, Blogger has continually given me problems. I have a hard enough time disciplining myself to write; don’t go causing me trouble about getting what I’ve written to where I want it to go.

Cornerstone Prayer Time Meditations

Improper Prayer
James 4.3 (ESV) reads: “You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.”
Look at those first two words: “you ask.” Does that not sound like what we’re supposed to do when we pray? Matthew 7.7 tells us, “Ask and it will be given to you…” So why [...]

Good thing there was a holiday in there somewhere!

Labor Day. Good name, ‘cuz that’s what mine held for me. Labor at home and at my study. I don’t usually “work” on a holiday in which we’re to rest from our labors in order to “celebrate the laborer”, however, my schedule this week necessitated this.

I don’t like weeks with schedules that seem almost out [...]