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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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