Praying Well

To pray is the greatest thing we can do, and to do it well, there must be calmness, time, and deliberation.

Love Your Enemy, Save Yourself

Jesus didn't teach us to love our enemies for their good. It is for our own good--to keep from becoming the enemy.

Carrying Our Weapon

Prayer is the wall of faith: her arms and missiles against the foe who keeps watch over us on all sides. And, so never we walk unarmed.

Praying the Ten Commandments

In "A Simple Way to Pray" (1535), Martin Luther writes:

If I have had time and opportunity to go through the Lord's Prayer, I do the same ...

Private Prayer, Public Prayer

A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.

Prayer and the Dipsy-Dumpster

Half the time the difficulty with daily prayer is not a lack of time, but assumptions about prayer that belong in the dipsy-dumpster. The other half of ...

Prayer Is Not a Substitute

Prayer is not a substitute for intelligent effort, careful planning, efficient selection or people, or adequate financing.

Better to Pray

It is better to pray over the Bible than to brood over the self.

Temper Tamer

I have found if I don't have my quiet time each morning, I tend to lose my temper over insignificant things. Recently, my son, Andrew, reminded me ...

Think Fast

One day, my husband announced to the family that he was going to fast and pray. Ginny, our 5-year-old, had recently learned that fasting meant not eating. ...