The Power of Daily Prayer

In Point Man, Steve Farrar tells the story of George McCluskey. When McCluskey married and started a family, he decided to invest one hour a day in prayer, ...

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What Determines the Quality of Life

The quality of your life will be determined by the amount of time you spend alone with God in reading, praying, and planning.

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Worship Needs to Simmer

Rod Cooper writes:

When I was about 10 years old, I had the privilege of getting up at 4 a.m. to get the cows so we could milk them. As we came in for ...

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Prayers of the Spirit

One day our church copier broke down. I'm not mechanically minded, but I called the repair shop to see if they could tell me what the problem was ...

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The Sacrificial Love of God

For family devotions, Martin Luther once read the account of Abraham offering Isaac on the alter in (Genesis 22). His wife, Katie, said, "I do not believe ...

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A Listener's Prayer

God

Grant me to be

silent before you--

that I may hear you;

at rest in you--

that you may work in me;

open to you--

that you may enter;

empty before you--

that ...

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Losing God

Even sermon making, incessant and taxing as an art, as a duty, as a work, or as a pleasure, will harden and estrange the heart by neglect of prayer from ...

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The Bible as a Stream

The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb may walk without losing its feet.

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The Penalty of Not Praying

The penalty of not praying is the loss of one's capacity to pray.

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Communing With God

If you've made a habit of communing with God when the sun is shining, you'll find it much easier to sing in the rain.

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