Blog Stats
- 270,423 hits
- Follow Honest about my faith on WordPress.com
-
Join 427 other subscribers
Top Posts & Pages
- Prodigal Son Craft Activity
- Popcorn helps us to understand pentecost
- Sticking Pins in the Cross: A Creative Prayer Activity
- How should Christians respond to blasphemy?
- A Creative Communion Service Inspired by John 8.1-12
- A creative assembly or church talk for children about the trinity and the incarnation
- Explaining the Holy Spirit simply - an all age talk / Sermon for Pentecost
- It's Good to Pray
- Creative communication
- The Light Shines the Brightest in the Darkest Places
Category Cloud
acceptance Being honest about our faith Bible Blessed to be a blessing change christmas Christmas story church creative communication discipleship Everyone is valuable Faith film Following Jesus freedom God is with us God loves us Holy Spirit hope Jesus Learning Life experiences Life in all it's fullness Listening to God Loving one another Prayer Relationship with God Saved by Jesus trust Who am IFollow me on Instagram
Follow me on Twitter
My Tweets
Tag Archives: do we understand what prayer is?
Time to Press Pause?
Today I am joining with others on a Ministers retreat day and I am really looking forward to it. I have to be honest though. I am not always good at making the time to press pause and to allow … Continue reading
Posted in Blessed to be a blessing, Faith, Following Jesus, Life experiences, Listening to God, Prayer, Relationship with God, rest, restoration
Tagged do we understand what prayer is?, find rest in God, making time for what is important, pause, quiet Day, retreat, sabbath, spiritual retreat, time to stop, what gives you rest, work from a place of rest, working from a place of rest, you are not a salmon
Leave a comment
Is it time to make God the focus of our prayer lives again?
I’ve had quite a stressful week and so I was looking forward to homegroup last night as an opportunity to share and to receive prayer. We had a great conversation about Mark 5 and part of our discussion was about the miracles … Continue reading
Posted in discipleship, encouragement, Faith, God is powerful, Life experiences, Miracles, Power of God, Prayer, Relationship with God, restoration
Tagged do we understand what prayer is?, focus, focus on what really matters in Christianity, growing in faith, How to pray, Jesus be the centre, mark 5, mark 5 21-43, me centred complaints, miracle, prayer, privilege of prayer, talk with God, talk with Jesus, trust God
1 Comment
I am a priest so I’m afraid that I have to pray
I stood there in disbelief as I realized that he really had just said. ‘I am a priest so I’m afraid that I have to pray’. These words were spoken at the end of a talk given in a school assembly and I don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Being honest about our faith, Faith, Following Jesus, Life experiences, Not ashamed of Jesus, Prayer, Relationship with God
Tagged adventure of following Jesus, do we understand what prayer is?, evangelism, follow Jesus wholeheartedly, honest about our faith, It's good to pray, Jesus is worth following, knowing Jesus, life experiences, privilege of prayer
Leave a comment
Hi Honey I’m Home
So I came back to the house yesterday and shouted ‘I’m back ‘ so Tracey would know I was home but then I remembered she wasn’t there because she is away camping with the girls. I felt very, very silly and Tracey … Continue reading
An Encounter with God is better than an Explanation about Him
Sadly, many Christians think that evangelism is primarily about passing on information about Jesus but it is so much more. I want people who don’t know Jesus yet to, Encounter him rather than just to hear an Explanation about him. Talk … Continue reading
Posted in Being honest about our faith, Faith, Prayer, Relationship with God
Tagged Christianity is about a relationship not a religion, do we understand what prayer is?, evangelism, investing in our relationship with God, is christianity a duty or a relationship, knowing Jesus, prayer, relationship with God, talk with God, talk with Jesus, talking with God
Leave a comment
The One About the Banned Advert
So, did you hear about the banned #justpray advert? The major cinema chains have refused to show it and whilst their decision may be disappointing, I think that it is one of the best things that could have happened for the justpray … Continue reading
The One About Praying in Dark Times
If someone who you cared for was executed because of their faith and at the same time another person who you knew was imprisoned because of their beliefs, what would you do? When one church went through this, they gathered to pray. … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, hope, Life experiences, Prayer, Relationship with God
Tagged acts 12, acts 4, acts 4 29-30, acts 4 prayer, an angel sets peter free, do we understand what prayer is?, God of hope fill you with joy and peace, ingredients of prayer, Jesus is the light, Jesus the light of the world, life experiences, my lighthouse, peter miraculously frees, put your hope in God, the darkness acan never extinguish the light, the darkness can never extinguish the light, The light is more powerful than the darkness, The light shines the brightest in the darkest places, what should we pray about
2 Comments
The One About A Special Moment
It had been a fantastic day out and we were nearing the end of a lovely walk. My daughter appeared alongside me and took my hand, we walked in silence for a while and then as she looked into my eyes and … Continue reading
Posted in discipleship, Faith, Life experiences, Prayer, Relationship with God
Tagged Christianity is about a relationship not a religion, do we understand what prayer is?, i love jesus, ingredients of prayer, is christianity a duty or a relationship, love God, prayer, relationship with God
3 Comments
Do we really understand what this prayer thing is all about?
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about prayer and as I have been looking through the prayers in the New Testament, I have been surprised by how few of them mention prayer for material things. Do this picture and our … Continue reading
Honest about my faith 