Vacation Bible School is an important ministry to Calvary’s children and other children in our community. Lola, who was baptized yesterday, is evidence for that claim. She shared that she accepted Christ during our “Colossal Coaster World” VBS several years ago. The 2017...
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is your spiritual act of worship. (Romans 12:1)There’s something strange about the word prayer. It doesn’t mean the person who is praying...
I welcome Linda Robins as a guest blogger this week. Linda spent two weeks in India in February and came home with much food for thought. Thank you, Linda, for sharing with us! For You will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; You will not be pleased with a burnt offering. The...
O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For Your sake, O my God, do not delay …” (Daniel 9:19)The theme verse for this year’s National Day of Prayer is the passionate, desperate conclusion of Daniel’s prayer of intercession for...
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. (James 1:27) Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the...
Jesus: Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.(John 14:13-14) Most of us automatically close every prayer with … In Jesus’ name, Amen. I am so casual about...
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your...
All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing … (Colossians 1:6b) I want to personally invite you, a reader of the prayer blog, to the Missions Month prayer event on Wednesday evening, March 15. It will be a time of corporate prayer focusing on a few broad...
“O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known today that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and have done all these things at Your command. Answer me, O LORD, answer me so these people will know that You, O LORD, are God, and that You are turning their hearts...
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. (Philippians 4:6) Have you ever been approached outside the grocery store and asked to sign a petition for a ballot initiative? If 365,880 California voters sign...