Tag Archives: Prayer

Leap of Faith

I was recently at a busi­ness func­tion at a local swim­ming pool; the same that I used to swim in as a child. While there I took notice of the div­ing boards that I remem­bered jump­ing off of. There are two div­ing boards, a low one and a high one. …

August 30, 2010 – 12:23 pm | By Anthony | Posted in Christian Living | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Forbidden to Pray? Jehovah’s Witnesses and Prayer

I was sit­ting in front of a reli­gious tri­bunal that was ren­der­ing their ver­dict against me.  They stated their deci­sion to dis­fel­low­ship me from the con­gre­ga­tion on the grounds of apos­tasy, or devi­a­tion from offi­cial doc­trine of the Watch­tower reli­gion. Their deci­sion meant that I would be shunned, com­pletely cut off from my friends and …

March 21, 2010 – 4:07 pm | By Anthony | Posted in Jehovah's Witnesses | Tagged , , , , | Comments (4)

Expectations

A lit­tle while ago my daughter’s scooter was stolen. It was a weird crime. It was taken off of our front porch, in the mid­dle of the day, while she stepped into the house for a moment. We assume it was just a neigh­bor kid who was walk­ing down …

August 17, 2008 – 9:13 pm | By Anthony | Posted in Christian Living | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (8)

Gethsemene

Last night I was read­ing over the dif­fer­ent accounts of the last hours of Jesus’ life on Earth. I was par­tic­u­larly moved by the account of what tran­spired in the gar­den of Geth­se­mane. The men­tal image of Jesus I car­ried in past is him at his strongest — the power that he dis­played …

September 29, 2005 – 5:58 am | By Anthony | Posted in Bible Study | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)