Peoria Prayer Center

The weight of life Some people take on the challenges of life with zeal. They attack life with endless possibilities. Their dreams and their ability are harmonized. Life for them is limited only by their imagination. But others see life more as a load, a burden. The challenges are weight and require a strength or skill they do not have. Or if they do have the skill, they lack the confidence to carry it. Still others, maybe most of us, see life as a combination. We live most of the time with high hope, we are looking forward. We get out of bed with purpose, even if it is a small one. We think of our to-do list with both joy and responsibility. Life is good and bad but there is enough good to keep going. But there are also times when the weight of relationships, employment, friendship or some other necessity weighs us down. A sickness, death or disease cruses our spirits, then our hopes and if not lifted, it may even crush our existence. Our purpose is lost to us. Others...

Changing the World And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ; having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. Philippians 1:9-11 NASB Maybe you’re like me and sometimes you get weary trying to change the world. Things seem to be getting worse, not better. We now have the intolerance of those calling for tolerance. The injustice of those seeking justice. The lies of those promoting truth. We hear a message to be love delivered in the context of hate and bigotry to everyone who is not loving in the way the presenter desires. Confront someone on their condition and they turn into a victim or a warlord. How do we not get caught up in all this? How can we live as Christians in a Christian way? I believe that two words from the passage abo...