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Intercessory Prayer: How to Build Faith in Your Grandchildren
Following the Navy’s boot camp, the visit with our son Ben had been painfully short. One day. Less than twenty-four hours with the son we hadn’t seen for eight weeks. As the pageantry of boot camp graduation faded, my husband and I faced a second separation from our firstborn. Now officially a military family, we…
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How to Practice Lent with Your Grandchildren
Lent begins February 18th. If your only familiarity with Lent is Mardi Gras, you may have a few questions. What is Lent? How did it start? And why practice it? Lent commemorates Jesus’s 40-day period of fasting and temptation in the wilderness. Historians point to the practice after the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D,…
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God’s Special Forces: Grandparents (and Parents) as Intercessors
By Gayle Veitenheimer My visit with Ben following the Navy’s boot camp had been painfully short. One day. Less than twenty-four hours with the son we hadn’t seen for eight weeks. The pageantry of boot camp graduation faded, and my husband and I faced a second separation from our firstborn. Now officially a military family,…
Read More How to Worship Extravagantly: The Woman with the Alabaster Jar
The alabaster jar of spikenard. An unusual gift. Precious. Costly. This was no bottle of cheap perfume. The pink-blossomed spikenard plant grew in India. Its fragrant oil, collected from the plant’s spikes, was valued so highly that one bottle cost a year’s wages. Scripture records several accounts of women bringing their oil-filled alabaster jars to…
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How to Fuel Personal Worship in 2022
Nehemiah 10:34 snagged me. The NIV reads, “We—the priests, the Levites and the people—have cast lots to determine when each of our families is to bring to the house of our God at set times each year a contribution of wood to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the Law.” What?…
Read More Answered Prayer: Great Expectations
Is it wrong to place expectations on God when it comes to prayer? I’m currently working on a picture book on prayer. Here’s a quote: “I heard your prayer. You thanked Me for breakfast. You’re welcome. Is that such a surprise?” asked God. Kaitlyn stirred her cereal. “I guess not,” she said. “I just didn’t…
Read More Prayer: It’s a Group Project
When you pray, you don’t pray alone. I’ve been studying prayer and recently, God took me to Matthew 6, the Lord’s Prayer. “This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, . . .’” Matthew 6:9 NIV For this first line, God gave me a picture of Jesus and the Holy Spirit on either…
Read More Pray About Everything
Everything? Seriously? Who has that kind of time? However, not praying may cost us more time in the long run. In the Old Testament, Joshua learned the hard way. Twice. Ouch. Scenario 1: All’s well—or so we thought. The Israelites had just come off a big win in Jericho. Woo-hoo! Big shout. Walls came down. Easy victory.…
Read More Keep Talking—To Him
Pray continually. 1 Thessalonians 5:17 NIV If this verse gives you flashes of life in a monastery, relax. That said, one of the best practical examples of this verse was a seventeenth-century Carmelite monk named Brother Lawrence. He wrote the book, The Practice of the Presence of God. Let’s explore some insights into the verse above: 1)…
Read More Training with Distractions
We’re dog training—again. Our trainer has a saying, “If Valor can’t do it with distractions, he can’t do it.” Commands practiced by himself don’t count. It’s what he does in public when people and pets are around that shows his true level of self-control. Lessons challenge him to rein it in and stay put when…
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