Author: Bo Parker
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Voice of the Lord vs Understanding
It seems to me that if God were primarily interested in having servants who would obey His voice in their lives, then Christians would experience direct communication from Him far more often than they do, and it should come in an audible voice. What if God is really interested in disciples who understand godliness and…
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Jerusalem Council
“It has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us“ Acts 15:28 In Acts 15, the early church is faced with the question of whether Gentile converts to Christ need to keep the law of Moses in order to belong to the people of God. This question is decided at what is known as…
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Jesus Take the Wheel ?
I took a week off of blogging while our oldest, Megan, was visiting. But now back to the topic of how we relate to God (or how God relates to us) in our work world. The idea of hearing the voice of the Lord for our work is attractive, but is it sound? And the…
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The Voice of the Lord ?
What does it mean to seek and to find God at our work? Surely it involves relating to Him. But what does that look like? Here the idea of hearing His voice, getting His direction about our work tasks and whatever we are dealing with day to day is very attractive. Work in this world…
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Rewards Those Who Seek Him
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. Hebrews 11:6 What comes to your mind when you think of believing that God is a rewarder of those who seek him? One way to think…
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Jesus on Prayer – Application
I am applying what I have been blogging to an area of unanswered prayer in my life. For over 25 years, I have had lower back pain. It is not a debilitating pain, and while it waxes and wanes, it has always been there to some degree. Some activities like lifting things or forms of…
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Jesus on Prayer IV
A reminder of what put me on this blog path about prayer. We need to have a robust prayer life at work and the major reason why we do not is because it has not worked for us before. We have faced too many times when the prayers were ineffective, so while we would still…
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Jesus on Prayer III
I propose that Jesus presents the clash between what we expect from prayer and what we experience in prayer, but does not reconcile the two. If Jesus was reconciling this clash, he would tell stories like the iconic “Footprints in the Sand” (that the url for this is onlythebible.com strikes me as ironic). Instead he…
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Jesus on Prayer II
From previous post….In contrasting God with the unjust judge, Jesus says “And will not God give justice to his elect who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily.”….So why does Jesus declare a promise that is contrary to our actual…
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Jesus on Prayer I
I think Yancey captures a challenging aspect of Jesus’ teaching on prayer. From Prayer Does It Make Any Difference. In a nutshell the main difficulty with unanswered prayers is that Jesus seemed to promise there need not be any…. “I tell you the truth if you have faith and do not doubt … you can…