When you refer to praying for someone “biblically” I expected you would be using the actual text of Scripture in the prayers. Perhaps praying the psalms as a prayer over persons.

One help I use in my prayer life is daily prayer focuses. Each day has a different focus. This doesn’t mean I don’t infuse personal prayer, but I am reminded to pray for those things I can easily forget by getting caught up in the daily needs that cross our desks.

I do like that you are seeking ways to improve the methods of prayer. This is an area that a lot of Christians have forgotten.

Good post.

How many times have I dropped the check in the offering bag without pausing to really think about what was happening? How many times have I missed truly being a part of this act of worship? Too often, I’m afraid.

I appreciate the modernization.

Quite possibly they were stories of these giant, wicked men in order to keep the people afraid and unwilling to challenge them or other authority figures. In addition they might be grossly exaggerated and become “tall tales” much like we have in American folklore (i.e. Paul Bunyon, Piccolo Pete, etc.) which when read 2-3000 years from now could be interpreted as our simple minds trying to explain the world as we understood it in 2009.

One additional note concerns the reference to Goliath. In the Dead Sea Scrolls Goliath is much shorter. He is only referred to as 4 cubits and a span (about 7 feet tall) which is far more believable. In addition to that, someone who is 9 feet tall would make for an imposing person but a horrible soldier due to the weakness of his bones.

I am always intrigued when I listen to/read about my father’s opinion about how today’s Christian is to minister to the world in which we live. Michael Bogart is a genuine man. His life experiences have prepared him to befriend and witness to most nonbelievers when some brothers or sisters in the faith shun the idea or retreat into the sanctuary of ‘The Church’. Furthermore, he and my mother have opened their very home and family to those sojourners in search of love, attention, spiritual fulfillment, friendship and what many never knew, but soon came to recognize as ‘family’. My dad is real! He is a real man whom God has, through the cosmos, called out from darkness to be a light for truth. For those who are reading about Michael Bogart for the first time, take notes. Jesus Christ has made a difference in this man’s life and God is using him like a carpenter uses his chisel to shape the lives of those who interact with him.

I’m proud of you Dad.

I am always intrigued when I listen to/read about my father’s opinion about how today’s Christian is to minister to the world in which we live. Michael Bogart is a genuine man. His life experiences have prepared him to befriend and witness to most nonbelievers when some brothers or sisters in the faith shun the idea or retreat into the sanctuary of ‘The Church’. Furthermore, he and my mother have opened their very home and family to those sojourners in search of love, attention, spiritual fulfillment, friendship and what many never knew, but soon came to recognize as ‘family’. My dad is real! He is a real man whom God has, through the cosmos, called out from darkness to be a light for truth. For those who are reading about Michael Bogart for the first time, take notes. Jesus Christ has made a difference in this man’s life and God is using him like a carpenter uses his chisel to shape the lives of those who interact with him.

I’m proud of you Dad.

In Christ
Abi.