by Roger Ross | Apr 12, 2024 | Blog, Grace
In What’s So Amazing About Grace?, Philip Yancey tells the story of Peter Greave. Greave contracted leprosy while stationed in India. “He returned to England, half-blind and partially paralyzed, to live on a compound run by a group of Anglican sisters. Unable to work...
by Roger Ross | Mar 22, 2024 | Blog, Discernment, God's call, God's will, Prayer, Spiritual Discipline
It blew my socks off. In a recent post, I shared the dark struggle that led to my first 8-day silent prayer retreat. At the time, I was so depleted, I couldn’t think straight. Seeing my distress, my spiritual director shared something no one had ever mentioned...
by Roger Ross | Mar 15, 2024 | Blog
I avoided it for years. Early in ministry, I began to take two-or-three-day retreats for prayer, journaling, and recalibrating my relationship with God. In the constant blur of local church ministry, they became a spiritual oasis that refreshed my soul. At the time,...
by Roger Ross | Mar 2, 2024 | Blog
“My mandate is joy,” says Pastor Jerry Eze. “God specifically said to me that I have a mandate that everyone who walks through our door must have joy.” Pastor Jerry Eze Pastor Jerry is so serious about joy, in 2013 he planted a church in Abuja, Nigeria called Streams...
by Roger Ross | Feb 23, 2024 | Blog
We had one more thing to talk about when she left. “No problem,” I thought. “I’ll call her on her way to work.” On any other day, that’d be an easy fix. But that morning, it was impossible. ATT’s sudden and unexplained network outage shut down all incoming and...
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