Reblogged #005: Pray for our president

Roy Ingle over at Arminian Today is one of my favorite bloggers.  He had a great post this morning reminding Christians of their primary duty toward our nation's leaders:  to pray for them.  It's worth a read, and more importantly, it's worth actually doing.

I admit I've been remiss in my responsibility.  I hope you'll join me in lifting up our leaders -- even especially the ones we don't particularly like -- and praying God's grace and mercy upon them.

Four proofs I'm called to ministry in Newfoundland

A few weeks ago I read Bruce Waltke's book Finding the Will of God:  A Pagan Notion?.  In it, Waltke examines the rather superstitious ways that modern Christians in America tend to try and find God's will for their lives ... or at least find ways to justify what they already want to do as "God's will".  He then contrasts that with the ways that the Bible gives for knowing God and what he desires from and for us.  It's a really good book, and opened my eyes to a few ways in which I'd been soothsaying rather than actually listening to God.

I also inspired me to find superstitious reasons for the calling I feel to share the Gospel in St. John's, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.  Looking back it's all so clear how God was giving me signs my whole life!