Praying for Others

In one Leadership cartoon, a man at a church meeting says to himself, Oh great! Here comes Bob. I told him I'd pray for him! "Dear God, help ...

Jesus' Unanswered Prayer

When Jesus prayed to the one who could save him from death, he did not get that salvation; he got instead the salvation of the world.

Depending on the Disabled

One day [childrens television's] Mister Rogers was making a trip to California and decided to pay a visit to a teenager with cerebral palsy. "At ...

God in the Storm

You think it is spiritually important to have free time to be alone with God; but I tell you, you will really get closer to him by embracing the Cross ...

Tornado Insurance

"We said a prayer that God would watch over us."

—Sherri Conley, of Oklahoma, telling the Daily Oklahoman how she, her husband, and two ...

Waiting Like a Trapeze Flyer

Not long before his death, Henri Nouwen wrote a book called Sabbatical Journeys. He writes about some friends of his who were trapeze artists, called ...

Prayer That Pleases God

If our churches don't pray, and if people don't have an appetite for God, what does it matter how many are attending the services? How would that ...

Remarkable Persistence in Prayer

The diary of George Mueller, Christian social reformer from the Victorian era, chronicles his devotion in prayer:

In November 1844, I began to pray for ...

Mushrooms from Heaven

In 1880, a Christian couple, George and Sarah Clarke, purchased the lease for the Pacific Beer Garden.

Promptly dropping the word Beer, the couple added ...

God's Method

We are constantly on a stretch, if not on a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the church and secure enlargement and ...