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Benefits of holy habits?

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Do you realize the benefits from developing habits of prayer or Bible reading? Dr David Murray has posted his thoughts on FOUR ways we benefit from the holy habits of prayer, Bible reading, and meditation:

1. They become hard not to do

2. They improve our feelings

3. They shape character

4. They reveal Christ to the soul

On that last point he writes, “What a blessing holy habits are. Yes, at times they may become rather mechanistic and ritualistic, no matter how hard we fight this. I’m sure Daniel had days like this too. But if we prayerfully persevere in them, as Daniel did, we will be made wise unto salvation and know Christ in deeper and deeper ways.”

Read David Murray’s whole post here.

CNN on American Spiritual Scene…

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Believe it or not, there is a “Belief Blog” at the CNN website, which I occasionally read. They are sometimes insightful, but are usually skewed by a liberal (and anti-biblical) bias. They recently posted an article titled “10 Things the Belief Blog Learned in Its First Year.” Their 10 lessons are a mixed bag of sad & interesting (even encouraging) points:

1 • Every big news story has a faith angle.
2 • Atheists are the most fervent commenters on matters religious.
3 • People are still intensely curious about the Bible, its meaning and its origins.
4 • Most Americans are religiously illiterate.
5 • It’s impossible to understand much of the news without knowing something about religion.
6 • Regardless of where they fit on the spectrum, people want others to understand what they believe.
7 • Americans still have an uneasy relationship with Islam.
8 • God may not prevent natural disasters, but religion is always a big part of the response.
9 • Apocalyptic movements come and go.
10 • Most Americans don’t know that President Barack Obama is a Christian.