I read about a pastor walking outside a hospital when a man came near him and said, “Her temperature is gone!” The pastor wrote that he had no idea who the man meant by “her” but he thought it must have been someone the man loved dearly. The pastor said he had never met the man before and would probably never see him again. However, he said, “I will never forget the sight of this man so overcome w...

“Praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding” (Colossians 1:9).One of the things I have noticed, and I like, about Paul’s teachings on prayer is that he puts the focus not so much on our problems but on God’s purposes. This occurs not just in Colossians, as we have been studying recently, but also in other letters of enco...