by Ivonne Rivera-Newberry | Mar 2, 2023 | Faith, Prayer
When I started to pray more intentionally, I didn’t even know there were different aspects to prayer. I knew to give thanks and to pour my “asks” to the Lord, but that was it. There is a useful acronym A.C.T.S., I later discovered, that can be used to help walk us...
by Ivonne Rivera-Newberry | Feb 13, 2023 | Prayer
When you think of prayer, what image comes to mind? Is it someone you know? Maybe you think of a movie like “It’s a Wonderful Life” where the main character George Bailey prays a “ditch prayer” after realizing $8,000 was misplaced (“ditch prayers” were introduced...
by Ivonne Rivera-Newberry | Feb 6, 2023 | Faith
I have always prayed. Even before I knew who Jesus was, I prayed to God throughout my life. I believed that God heard my prayers, but my understanding of God and how He worked was extremely narrow and limited. My discipline or practice of prayer was equally narrow and...
by Ivonne Rivera-Newberry | Jan 19, 2023 | Faith
As I begin my annual review of 2022, I am pretty stoked about having accomplished one particular goal… I read the Bible in its entirety in one year. This is personally a big deal because when I became a Christian in 2017, the notion of reading the Bible was...
by Ivonne Rivera-Newberry | Sep 8, 2022 | Faith
I came across the term “worldly sorrow” in my Bible reading and it made me pause. When the Bible talks about “worldly” things it refers to the domain of the enemy and things we should not pursue. Surely sorrow is an emotion that we can...
