Apprentice Owl Apologetics

                I have made this title rather similar to a previous title of mine (Is God still relevant?) for a reason here. With all of the need for checking and verifying information and methods of living, does prayer still have a “prayer” for people to talk to God today? I would say yes, and I want to take a few minutes to unpack why prayer still works, even when the answer from God is no.                 So what is prayer? A casual definition for it is a conversation with God. In my prayer life, I talk to God about things that happened in my day, thanking him for what happened and asking forgiveness if I could have handled a situation in a more Christ-like manner. I also ask him to take care of myself, my family, and the needs of others. What people like to focus on in objections to prayer is the requests of God. They will set up “experiments” to test God’s providence. Now there was another famous situation in which someone was trying to test God. When Satan tempted Jesus to th

                This is a letter of encouragement to my fellow believers whom have made a mistake or stumbled in their walk with Christ. If you are like me, then you have this attitude about being a Christian that you cannot make a mistake because a mistake could ruin your testimony. Something that God has been working on me during this summer is that it is ok to make mistakes. When you think about it, a lot of the leaders in the Old Testament made mistakes during their service to God. What I would like to do is to run through a few examples of these and show how these mistakes are actually used in ministry to bring people to God.                 We can look at the first people Adam and Eve. God forbade them from eating the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The serpent convinced Eve to eat of it, then Eve convinced Adam, introducing sin and death into the world. God found out and kicked them out of the garden. That could have been the end, but God had a plan to