Sam Hardman

Lifter of Heads

How grim the world often seems, O Lord.

Violence and oppression prosper

in the hand of the wicked:

Brutal murders of Your sons and daughters –

princes and

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This is a prayer of devotion, posted here with the goal of encouraging suffering Christians to let the hard things they are dealing with drive them to Christ.

Suffering and Glory

O

Kevin Steyer

In response to my recent blog post on Ecclesiastes, a friend of mine suggested a connection between the message of Ecclesiastes and the fact that it is followed in the Bible by the Song

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The Barren Fig Tree – A Prayer

O Lord of the harvest,

You have planted us in your garden

not to be barren,

but to bear much fruit.

Yet we resist your cultivation.

We see the

Kevin Steyer

Over the past few months, our Wednesday evening Bible studies have been in the book of Ecclesiastes. It is a book with many recognizable phrases. Among these are: “all is vanity,”

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I’ve written in a prior post that what we call the “Triumphal Entry” of Jesus into Jerusalem is better thought of as a provocation to the powers of darkness to launch the onslaught

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Have you ever asked yourself the question, “Why does Jesus enter Jerusalem for the final time during his earthly ministry in the way that he does – what Christians call ‘The

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As more and more Millennials walk away from the Christian faith they once claimed to hold, it’s tempting for Baby Boomer Evangelicals like me to decry this state of affairs and to

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Recently an interesting letter to the editor appeared in a Kentucky newspaper called the Lexington Herald-Leader. In it the writer, speaking of Christians, said in part that “these

Sam Hardman, 12/17/2019                                                                   

Did you know that singing Christmas carols with a true heart is,

Sam Hardman, March 7, 2019

Why Do I Struggle to Experience Intimacy with God?

 How many of us hear others talk or write about their experiences of sweet communion with God and wonder, “What’s

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How to Pray : Seven Exhortations from 2 Samuel 17

In our time and place – in the midst of our post-modern and post-Christian culture in the West – there are so many things that

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Sometimes life doesn’t seem to turn out the way we want it to or expect it to. We might believe the promises of God – and we might anticipate good things in keeping with those