I saw a meme on Facebook that made me laugh. I can't find it again, but it went something like, 'I have prayer ADHD, I start, drift into thinking other things, then come back saying 'Where was I, Lord?'

I think we have all had the same experience.

Our fleshly minds want to think of anything except compass point north, Jesus Christ. It zones out on us, drifts off, creates a grocery list, listens to the birds outside, or the traffic, anything but laser focus on the throne of grace.

Why is it so hard?

The Hidden Life of Prayer by David McIntyre is online for free.

https://www.fivesolas.com/hiddnint.htm

Scripture urges us to pray. We have the duty of continual communion with Him. And yet, so often we don't pray as we ought. Why is this?

Link mentioned:

David McIntyre:

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Hospitality in Bible times in Palestine was a serious matter. There were cultural expectations, protocols, and traditions. The word host or hospitable is from a Greek word philoxenia meaning "love of strangers".

Hospitality generally means 'the gracious treatment of guests in your home'. There are many examples of hospitality in the Bible...but there ARE times we are to deny hospitality to others. Tune in to hear!

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This podcast isn't about Robert Morris.

On June 14, 2024, a woman named Cindy Clemishire in partnership with The Wartburg Watch (a church sexual abuse reporting and support page) announced she had been molested by Robert Morris in 1981 when she was 12. Morris, now age 63, is the pastor of the largest mega-church in the United States. He was selected as then-candidate President Trump's spiritual advisor. He has been in the preaching business since he was 19 years old. He is incredibly famous.

But this isn't about Robert Morris's fame.

What IS it about then? Tune in to hear some encouraging things.

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In the New Testament, Jesus pronounced oracular woes. He pronounced doom for peoples, individuals, nations, kings. He also predicted doom for entire cities!

1. What happened?

2. Why couldn't she just answer?!

3. What does the Bible say?

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Finishing my missionary series, we end with a modern day missionary, or as some call Chau, a rogue adventurer. Either way, he did what he did, and his death caused a brief global conversation about unreached peoples and the cause for Christ.

Tune in to hear of the controversial life and death of John Allen Chau

Interview via Quick to Listen/Christianity Today with the director of All Nations missionary organization Mary Ho about John Allen Chau

What John Allen Chau's Missions Agency Wants You to Know

All Nations missionary organization issues letter regarding John Allen Chau

Al Mohler The Briefing-

Segment 1: The morality of global missions: How should those in the developed world look at hunter-gatherer tribes?

Segment 2: Motivation vs. methodology: What the modern missions movement has taught us about how to most effectively reach the unreached.

Garrett Kell: Was murdered missionary John Chau and arrogant fool?

End of the Spear: Movie about Operation Auca and the five missionary deaths in 1956

Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman autobiography of first woman missionary to inland China

Rethinking the viability of short term mission trips

Why short term missions is really long-term missions

Incomprehensible Evangelicals and the Death of John Allen Chau

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This week and last week I've presented essays about a few of these female missionaries, including Elisabeth Elliot, Amy Carmichael, and Gladys Aylward. These are ladies who seem to have done "missionary" right.

There are some women who have not behaved well on the mission field, or whose motives for going became obvious via their words or their letters.

Lottie Moon actually used the mission field to satisfy personal ambitions and to enlarge the career opportunities for women. Did you know that? Let's take a look.

We we a debt to the missionaries who submitted their lives to discomfort, danger, snares, seemingly fruitless toil, betrayals, sleepless nights, and hardship unimaginable.

Today, let's learn a little bit about Adoniram Judson, a missionary to Burma.

Missionary Moment: 20th century Martyrs Phil Masters and Stan Dale, a story of the Yali and Kimyals

Missionary Elisabeth Elliot: "Under the Shadow of the Almighty"

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I’m taking a look at some missionaries this week. It’s refreshing to the soul, I believe, to honor the memory of those who heeded the call to go to strange lands, and devote their life ministering to a strange people.

Amy Carmichael (1867-1951) was a missionary to India. Her mission was to women and children of India and she labored during the first half of the twentieth century.

HeartCry Missionary Society: Retrospective on Amy Carmichael’s mission (downloadable .pdf)

Amy Carmichael—A Portrait of Sacrifice

Amy Carmichael: the Torchlighters episode for children

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