New Series on Prayer: Dialogue

Most of you who read this regularly know I disappear twice yearly for a study and renewal retreat. Silence, solitude, study, long walks in the woods, and extended time allow me to listen for the Lord’s leading and assess the needs of our church. (And it’s nourishing to my own soul!) So, when I returned from this last one, I was burdened about our prayer life—my own and that which is common in our church family.

I knew I needed several weeks to journey with the Lord about that. I needed to collect some of the great works on prayer. EM Bounds, John Wesley, Tim Keller, Alistair Begg, Beth Moore, and a delightfully surprising book that will help me with our final installment, God on Mute. So, I have invested the time to read, reflect, and journal. It’s been a rich, challenging season, but I still feel like a child in this discipline. I know what powerful prayer can be; I have experienced it. Oh, how I wish I could say that my prayer life is all it could be. It isn’t. I’m still on the journey, but I have a better “map,” and I look forward to sharing it.

Out of this journey will come our next series for July. “Dialogue” is probably one of the most important series I will preach. It’s meat and potatoes, basic grist for the most important conversations we will ever have. It has challenged me, and I hope you’ll let this journey challenge you.

Dialogue begins July 14th.