Misguided Requests

Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

Prayer Is the Real Work

It would seem almost self-evident that the organization attempting to be sensitive to its role as part of the kingdom of God should discover times when ...

Luther: "How I Pray"

Dear Master Peter [Beskendorf, Luther's barber and lifelong friend]: I will tell you as best I can what l do personally when I pray. May our dear ...

What Is Prayer?

Today the bedrock principle upon which any layperson's approach to prayer should be based is this: pray when you can, where you can, and how you can. ...

"Help Me Help You"

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help him. I ended up asking him to do his work through me.

Distractions from Prayer

Any house wife knows that the best way to remember the things she meant to do and forgot is to start praying. They will come to her and divert her from ...

Find Out about Prayer

Doctoral student at Princeton, 1952: "What is there left in the world for original dissertation research?"

Visiting lecturer Albert Einstein: ...

Pray and Post Guard

After their long and weary exile in Babylon the people of Israel were set free to return to their own land. Spurred on by Nehemiah, they began to rebuild ...

Dead to Materialism

O Lord, crucifie the world unto me, that though I cannot avoyd to live among the baites and snares of it, yet it may be so truely dead unto me and I unto ...

Prayers of the Spirit

Prayer is made by the spirit, and prayer is made by the mind joined with the spirit.