Archives for May 2017

"The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working." James 5:16 I am spending a few weeks preaching on the model prayer from the Sermon on the Mount. Seldom is the time I teach on prayer that I am not reminded of George Mueller. Mueller was an evangelist who lived in the 1800's. He is widely remembered for his work with orphans at the Ashley Down Orphana...

"Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven." Matthew 6:1 I am fully capable of turning a "would-be righteous act" into a perverse exhibition of my own self-centeredness. Case in point. A number of years ago, a friend of mine was given a car by her parents a...