“You know who Jesus is and that He died on the cross and was resurrected so that you can have eternal life … if you accept His invitation to follow Him. Is that a true statement?’ I said to J. at the Wright County Jail yesterday afternoon. “Yes, I believe that,” J. replied. “Then why […]
I hadn’t heard from Shawn yet in 2022. He’s serving a 28-year sentence in Stillwater and usually calls at least once a month. He called last week. “We’ve been in constant lockdown since January,” he told me. “First there was Covid lockdown for two months. Just as that was lifted, there was a stabbing followed […]
The way we react during the day will either hinder or help our praying. If we allow a state of reaction not born of a simple relationship to Jesus Christ, we shall have so much wilderness waste to get through before we can come to God. The Holy Spirit is there all the time, but […]
This first of the beatitudes Jesus taught at the Sermon on the Mount had always been one of those verses that sounded good to me but that I really didn’t understand. In March of 2019, I decided to do a bit of research to try to get a grasp of what Jesus probably meant. Spirit […]
In the early afternoon of August 22, 2016, I prayed this wandering prayer on my way driving to Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis. “Oh Lord, all the cars on the road, all the people in the city, who am I on my own? Only an insignificant identity, nobody, unknown except by a few, of no significance […]
Every now and again we need to confess what we believe in order to remind ourselves Whose we are and why we are here. This is a poem I wrote some years back that I read whenever I need my faith strengthened. I believe in God my Father;I believe in Christ His Son.I believe in […]
“The Holy Spirit does not perform His work in us in some disjointed, haphazard way. He does not exist to simply to help us cope with life, to get us through crises and to see us through lonely nights. He is not there just to pick us up and pump in a little more strength […]
Ten men in a sober house in Buffalo are doing a Bible study using the book I wrote with Pastor Bill Hicks called THE BIBLE REVEALED IN 10 STORIES. LINK If you’d like to receive a free PDF of this book to see what it is they are studying, send me an email at patrickday@pyramidpublishers.com. […]
A proud person acts and thinks on his/her own. When you take off the wrappings, pride is simply independence from God. Proud people make decisions based on their own reasoning, skills, and abilities. A humble person depends wholly on the Lord for everything in every circumstance. Humble people know the Lord has to direct them, […]
I asked Ricco at the Wright County Jail yesterday how he could be such a strong Christian and get into the trouble he did that landed him in jail for possibly a very long time. If you’ll remember, Ricco is a person I lean on for spiritual perspective. His answer was this. “Pat, before that […]