Luke 15: 1-10 A little boy needed $100 for a school field trip, so his mother told him to ask God for it. He prayed for two weeks, but nothing turned up. So, he decided to ask God for the money in a letter. At the post office, the postmaster opened the letter to God…
Tag: John Wesley
We’re Attracted
Isaiah 60: 1-6; Matthew 2: 1-12 This begins the Christian worship season of Epiphany. This commemorates the presentation of God to the world in the form of Jesus, first as an infant, next as one baptized in the Jordan, and, lastly as the transfigured one on the mountain. The world is attracted to Jesus. The…
Out of the Blue, It Came
Luke 3: 1-6 Sometimes God comes to someone already in the wilderness. Luke gives his readers and listeners a background, a context of history. There are layers of authority in place, and the word of the Lord came to a man in the wilderness. This is how God came to the region around the Jordan….
These Hallelujahs Be Multiplied (100th Post)
On New Year’s eve, 1738-9, seven of the Oxford Methodists and some sixty others held a watch-night service and love feast in a religious society whose rooms were in Fetter Lane, London. John Wesley wrote: “About three in the morning, as we were continuing instant in prayer, the power of God came mightily upon us,…
Psalm 102 in The Message 