Bible and Prayer Equally Important

An old saint was asked, "Which is the more important: reading God's Word or praying?"

To which he replied, "Which is more important ...

Solitude Is Source of Freedom

Ministry must be done in a rhythm of engagement and withdrawal. Wise followers of Christ have always understood solitude to be the foundational practice. ...

Caring in a Violent Neighborhood

Charles Lyons, pastor of Armitage Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois, writes:

People still get killed in my neighborhood. A 13-year-old kid gets gunned ...

A Pastor's Honest Prayer

In her book Holy the Firm, Annie Dillard writes of attending a small church with some 20 people:

The minister is a Congregationalist and wears a white ...

Self-Centered Life Is Prison

Those people who pray know what most around them either don't know or choose to ignore: centering life in the insatiable demands of the ego is the ...

Son Prompted to Pray for Father

David Moore writes in Everything was OK:

"I couldn't get to sleep, Dad. I had this terrible feeling that you were in some kind of trouble, and ...

Prisoner Gets Freedom by Asking

In 1998, 40-year-old Reynaldo Tovar-Valdivia was arrested for possessing methamphetamines with intent to distribute. Upon pleading guilty, he was sentenced ...

Discouraged Preacher Hears from God

I had been preaching for more than two decades, and I should have been at the top of my game. The church I served ran up to 1,500 on Sunday mornings, ...

Persevering Prayer for a Drug-Addicted Son

In Pray! magazine, Jennifer Kennedy Dean tells this story:

Several years ago, Mary (not her real name) came to me for prayer. She was desperate and afraid. ...

Praying for Persecutors at Gunpoint

J. E. Modupe Taylor-Pearce writes in, "I Feel Like Executing You Now!"

On January 6, 1999, rebels terrorized Freetown, Sierra Leone, —murdering ...