Communing With God

If you've made a habit of communing with God when the sun is shining, you'll find it much easier to sing in the rain.

Skepticism Gets in the Way

Skepticism gets in the way of prayer. It can create barriers in my intimacy with God.

Anorexic Christians

Christians must remember that prayer is like the mortar that holds the bricks together, or the quiet pauses in a symphony. Without the mortar everything ...

To Live in God's Presence

The most holy practice, the nearest to daily life, and the most essential for the spiritual life, is the practice of the presence of God, that is to find ...

What to Ask God For

I asked God to take away my pride, and God said no. He said it was not for him to take away, but for me to give up.

I asked God to make my handicapped ...

The Discipline of Prayer

The paradox of prayer is that it asks for a serious effort while it can only be received as a gift. We cannot plan, organize or manipulate God; but without ...

Seeking God's Face

We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.

Secret Sin Blocks Prayer

In his book Why Prayers Are Unanswered, John Lavender retells a story about Norman Vincent Peale.

When Peale was a boy, he found a big, black cigar, slipped ...

Not Strange Bedfellows

Many "sophisticated" political and social commentators complain that issues like school prayer are "distractions" having nothing to ...

Faith Plus Works?

Among the remembered prayers of the very wise and holy St. Thomas More is this: "The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labor ...