Pastor Dan's Blog

What Prayer Accomplishes

Pastor Dan Walker — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:35:57 +0000

I think that a lot of people have no idea of the importance of prayer. I believe that prayer is the most powerful force for change in the world. Prayer is the force that shapes world events and changes history on the global scale. On the individual scale, prayer rescues lives that are destined for failure and death. [...] Related posts:

Praying With The Bible

Pastor Dan Walker — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:46:19 +0000

Prayer is one of the most important activities that a believer can do. Prayer can be defined simply as talking and listening to God. There are many aspects to prayer. In the Lord’s prayer, Jesus teaches us about five aspects of prayer. The first aspect is praising God for who He is. Next is committing yourself to God’s [...] Related posts:

What Hinders Your Prayers?

Pastor Dan Walker — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:01:39 +0000

Let me start out by asking you the question “Does God answer your prayers?” What would you say? Does He answer all the time, usually, some of the time or never? We all would like God to answer our prayers all the time, but that doesn’t happen for many us. Why not? Unanswered prayer is a big [...] Related posts:

Advanced Prayer Disciplines

Pastor Dan Walker — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:55:56 +0000

Currently, we’re in a message series called “Powerful Prayer.” God wants our prayers to be powerful and effective. Yet sometimes, we are not sure why we should pray at all. Why should we pray? There are a lot of good answers to that question. As a believer, you should pray because God commands it. You should pray because you love [...] Related posts:

The Basics of Prayer

Pastor Dan Walker — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:40:47 +0000

I believe that God has great things in store for us here as we follow His leading in the Ballwin area. Our vision at Life Church is to reach out to people across the St Louis metro area and tell them about God’s great plan and purpose for their lives. Somebody reached out to each of us [...] Related posts:

What Is Faith?

Pastor Dan Walker — Sun, 02 May 2010 21:50:05 +0000

What is faith? The dictionary defines faith as “Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, an idea, or a thing.” Faith is about believing in someone or something. People believe in all sorts of things. You got up believing that the sun would get up too. You ate some breakfast cereal, made from [...] Related posts:

Overcoming Your Temptations

Pastor Dan Walker — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:35:40 +0000

Everyone has temptations, Jesus had temptations, I have temptations, you have temptations. Temptations are part of life, you can’t get away from them. Temptations come in all sorts of sizes and flavors. The traditional seven deadly sins are: pride, envy, anger, laziness, greed, gluttony and lust. Those cover a lot of our temptations. Temptations come at us in an [...] Related posts:

The Purpose of Temptation

Pastor Dan Walker — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:24:12 +0000

God uses a number of tools to help each person grow during their lives. God has a plan and purpose for your life. The only way that you’re going to accomplish that purpose is for you to continue to grow. Growth is a lifelong process. It takes work, you’ve got to stick with it, but the results [...] Related posts:

Don’t Waste Your Troubles

Pastor Dan Walker — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:06:18 +0000

God wants you to grow in every dimension of your life and growth involves change. Growth and change are good things, they will make your life better. However we tend to resist change. We don’t want to change, we just want our circumstances to change. God doesn’t work that way. He’s more interested in you changing than your [...] Related posts:

The Point of Life

Pastor Dan Walker — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:03:21 +0000

I believe that the event Easter celebrates is the most important event in world history. On Easter we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. If the resurrection had not occurred, we would not be meeting here today. Nor would we remember Jesus Christ or have a New Testament. Without the resurrection, life would be incredibly more [...] Related posts: