Learning to Pray

"Lord, teach us to pray!" So spoke the disciples to Jesus. In making this request, they confessed that they were not able to pray on their own, ...

Divine Directions

One day I decided to take my three children to an ice skating party in a nearby town, but after several wrong turns and stops to ask directions, I pulled ...

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 ...

God's Good Gifts

In your prayer, do not hesitate to thank the Lord for all that he gives. This is often difficult since we are not always willing to receive some of the ...

God Opens His Hands

When in prayer you clasp your hands, God opens his.

The Power of a Prayer

In his book Living Life on Purpose, Greg Anderson shares the story of one man's journey to joy:

... his wife had left him and he was completely depressed. ...

Moody's Motivator

"Auntie" Sarah Cooke: Her prayers changed Moody's ministry

"Few persons in Chicago were better known in certain religious circles than ...

Perfect Words for the Contrite Heart

For the following part of his Book of Common Prayer, [Thomas] Cranmer drew on a number of medieval sources and yet composed something greater than their ...

Living Our Prayers

Our lives must be as holy as our prayers. Our prayers are to prove their reality by the fruit they bear in the holiness of our life. True devotion in ...

The Purpose of Prayer

My four-year-old likes to say the blessing at mealtimes, usually repeating the same short prayer: "Thank you, God, for this gracious food. In Jesus' ...