The Skill and Grace of Prayer

There is a great difference between the skill and the grace of prayer. The skill consists chiefly in a readiness of thought consistent with the various ...

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God's Desire for Us

God loves us and delights in us, and so he wishes us to love him and delight in him and trust greatly in him.

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Finding Meaning in Life

People are as interested as ever in finding meaning for their lives.

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Sensing Need for God

When we don't pray, it's primarily because we don't sense our need for God.

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Role Reversal

The ancient man approached God (or even the gods) as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: ...

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Knowing God--Loving God

Let us give our thoughts completely to knowing God. The more one knows him, the more one wants to know him, and since love is measured commonly by knowledge, ...

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A Listener's Prayer

God

Grant me to be

silent before you--

that I may hear you;

at rest in you--

that you may work in me;

open to you--

that you may enter;

empty before you--

that ...

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A Need to Experience God

The institutional church in America is filled with religious people who desperately need an experience of the living, holy, forgiving, gracious God.

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Failing to Seek God

Rabbi Baruck's grandson Jechiel was playing hide-and-seek with another child. Jechiel hid and waited for his friend to search for him. He waited a ...

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Running in Circles

I once read the following definition of a fanatic: "A fanatic is a person who, having lost sight of his goal, redoubles his effort to get there." ...

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