It might seem a very strange title, but for those who have glimpsed something of the awesome holiness of our God and tasted something of his goodness, the possibility that we can indeed talk to this God as our Father is utterly amazing. Eric Onyango reviews You Can Pray by Tim Chester. You can be … Continue reading
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Enjoy Your Prayer Life [Review]
Peter Muturi reviews a new book on prayer that doesn’t whip us with guilt or whip us up with false expectations but actually calls us to enjoy a relationship… In this small book (only 48 pages) Michael Reeves identifies with the many Christians who struggle with prayer. Nevertheless, he expounds the need to work on this very … Continue reading
In the valley
Lord, high and holy, meek and lowly, you have brought me to the valley of vision, where I live in the depths but see you in the heights; hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold your glory. Let me learn by paradox that the way down is the way up, that to be low … Continue reading
Praying for our brothers and sisters in Iraq
“Today’s pictures are too awful to show. You know I love to show photos but the photo I was sent today was the most awful I have ever seen. A family of 8 all shot through the face laying in a pool of blood with their Bible open on the couch. They would not convert it cost them there … Continue reading
Unreached: Orma
Mtumishi reports: The Orma are a semi-nomadic people who live in the south eastern part of Kenya: Tana river and Lamu districts. They are a remnant of the once powerful Gala nation in Ethiopia. They mostly occupy Garsen, Tarasaa and Witu areas where they are mainly herders of cattle with small pockets of subsistence farming. … Continue reading
Unreached: Bajun
In the first of a series of posts on largely unreached people groups, Mtumishi reports on a Swahili group of 73,400 people, the Bajun of Lamu, and leads us in prayer for them. Faza Island off the Kenyan coast is the dwelling place of the Bajun people. They are the result of intermarriages between Arabs … Continue reading
Prayer and the Voice of God
Mercy Waithira reviews: Philip Jensen & Tony Payne, Prayer and the Voice of God: Listening to God’s Living Word Will Transform the Way You Pray, Mathias Media: 2006. Prayer is the most natural but also unnatural thing to do. It is natural because anyone can do it, and most people do it at one stage … Continue reading