You Can't Always Get What You Want ...

In his book Maverick, Ricardo Semler tells of a lesson he learned working at Semco: "We were in yet another meeting ... when we came to the purchase ...

The Couple That Prays Together

Praying with their wives is one of the last things some men do. Why? Perhaps it's because prayer places them in a position of dependence upon God and ...

The Secret of True Harmony

It is only when a husband and wife pray together before God that they find the secret of true harmony: that the difference in their temperaments, their ...

Prayer, Care, and Thankfulness

Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.

When Prayer Makes Sense

Max Lucado writes:

Prayer only makes sense when you have quit trying to do ministry yourself. I've learned that as things go smoothly, I pray less. ...

The Most Important Work

The future of the Christian work which is now being carried on with such great intensity does not depend upon curtailment or reorganization. It depends ...

Testing God

Prayer, coupled with loving obedience, is the way to put God to the test and to make prayer answer all ends and all things.

A Prayer of Clement

We ask you, Master, be our helper and defender. Rescue those of our number in distress; raise up the fallen; assist the needy; heal the sick; turn back ...

The Highest Human Goal

The goal, the highest good, of the human creature is that the knowledge of God and prayer to God converge.

Phone Blunder

Early one Sunday morning I was awakened by the telephone. Thinking it was my son playing a joke on me, I picked up the receiver. In a hoarse whisper, ...