Expectancy in Prayer: Faith or Presumption

While on retreat several years ago I was reading one of the daily reflections from A Minute of Margin by Richard Swenson, MD. It was one of those experiences where God heightened my awareness and said you need to pay attention here. The title to the reflection was Expectation Overload and it pointed out the fact that the affluence of our society has created within us an expectation for more, of everything. “We expect health, wealth ...

Hope Healing and Freedom: Jesus Died to Give Us This Kind of Life

One of the promises of the Easter season is that Jesus died in order that we might have life and hae it in abundance (John 10:10).  Lilterally what Jesus promised is the "super abundant life."  The abundant life is characterized by hope for today and tomorrow, increasing joy and living with a sense of purpose and expectation.  If our experience of life is anything less han this abundance, we can know that Jesus desires more and ...


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