The Rev. Joy Yee is senior pastor of Nineteenth Avenue Baptist Church in San Francisco, CA, and a former moderator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
The Rev. Joy Yee is senior pastor of Nineteenth Avenue Baptist Church in San Francisco, CA, and a former moderator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
Once upon a time there was a beginning to time and creation. At some point in the future there will be a culmination of God's purposes in his creation. But in between the beginning and the end, there are many different kinds of moments. At any moment in our world, someone is crying. At any moment, someone is laughing. At any moment, someone is yelling, someone is whispering. At any moment someone is being lifted up and someone else is being torn down. At any moment in our world someone is rejoicing and someone is mourning. At any moment someone is finding and someone is losing. At any moment someone is being born and someone is dying. At any moment.
Read full transcript...Prayers from the pit of life are a part of the life of faith.
* Pit prayer addresses God.
* Pit prayer can express double-mindedness.
* Pit prayer expresses our honest (positive and negative) desires and submits them to God.
* God can handle the pits.
* Pit prayer can lead us to a new orientation.