Archbishop Richard Trench on Prayer

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance … it is laying hold of his highest willingness.

—Archbishop Richard Trench

Power Encounter in Ghana

I once met a brother from Ghana, West Africa, who was completing his PhD in the School of World Missions at Fuller Theological Seminary. During one of ...

Man Ignores Answer to Prayer

A businessman was late for an important meeting and couldn't find a parking space. As he frantically circled the block, the man got so desperate that ...

Man Finds Bag of Unopened Prayers

What happens to our prayers after we send them out? For 300 people living in the New Jersey area, the answer to that question is not very encouraging.

Man Experiences the Power of Everyday Prayers

Rick Richardson writes in his book Reimagining Evangelism:

My friend Sam works at Einstein Brothers Bagels, where I write my books. Sam has a Muslim dad ...

CEO's Prayer Saves a Business

It was 1986, and the world was crashing around David Green. In the offices of his multimillion dollar hobby and craft business, Hobby Lobby, he read the ...

Child Prays for Abusive Uncle

Heidi Neumark, pastor of Transfiguration Lutheran Church in the South Bronx, writes:

Because of visitation to their homes and because of our open doors ...

Intercessory Prayer for a Fearful Friend

Arlyn Lawrence writes in "The Other Great Commission?":

Carrie was a casual acquaintance from church—an outgoing person with a quick smile ...

Doctor Learns About Healing Prayer

Jeffrey H. Boyd, a medical doctor from Waterbury, Connecticut, writes:

My first wife, Pat, had diabetes, two heart attacks, bypass surgery, two strokes, ...

Church Prays from the Phone Book

In their book Dangerous Intersections, Jay Dennis and Jim Henry write:

Prayer changes things. That’s what a church in Phoenix discovered after the ...