Prayer
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I want to add my prayers for the Church around the world. In Iran, our brothers and sisters in Christ are being rounded up and persecution is increasing. Let us unite in our prayers for these and others who lay it on the line every day just to believe in Christ! Read more
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From my new prayer book, Common Prayer, I learn this from today’s reading: The “watch night” (when in my church tradition the church “prays in” in the New Year) actually began in the African American communities on December 31, 1862. They gathered to celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation which would become law on January 1, 1863.… Read more
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A prayer: God of all hope and joy, open our hearts in welcome, so that your Son Jesus Christ at his coming may find in us a dwelling prepared for himself; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God now and for ever. Amen. Lord, this Christmas season is upon us.… Read more
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Having finished Robert Benson’s book In Constant Prayer for a book review, there are some powerful thoughts from his work I wanted to share. His admonition is to take up the duty of prayer. Specifically, take up the ancient practice of the “offices.” Pray the daily office. The office is just a collection of words.… Read more
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The need for daily prayer is witnessed beautifully in the words of Charles de Foucauld: “I must say my office (prayer) with great care. it is my daily offering of fresh flowers and roses, symbolical of fresh love offered daily to the Beloved Spouse.” Deliver fresh flowers daily. For the Lover of your soul. Read more
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“‘How we spend our days is how we spend our lives,’ writes Annie Dillard. ‘What we are doing with this hour and with that one is what we are doing.’ “Time is the real currency of our age, and we have to manage our time in relation to our spiritual life as much as we… Read more
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A new book in a series from Thomas Nelson. The first few pages have drawn me in as I hear this ancient call to prayer once again. Read more
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The first and second Sundays of Advent have a common theme for me: HOPE. (It’s actually a biblical word, not a campaign slogan. Who knew?) The epistle for this Sunday is Romans 15:4-13. “For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures… Read more
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It is so incredible to me that in just a few days there is a shift from what I felt to be a breakthrough in prayer to silence. It happens. That’s life as a believer. And I’m not a real big fan of it. One of the people I was praying for last Thursday, when… Read more
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Yesterday I was at a day of fasting and prayer for pastors in our district (actually a section in our district). It was wonderful to get away for a day to spend time seeking the Lord in prayer, especially with other pastors and a few other church leaders as well. There was a point in… Read more
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