Prayer
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Lessons From the Bike Trail: A Sunday Night Surprise, Part 2
(FYI, Part 1 is here) Two days into the broken ribs adventure, my right lung collapsed (in doctor’s lingo, a pneumo-thorax). Later, the trauma surgeon would surmise that it truly began at the time of the accident on Sunday evening, but the actual collapse and thus the symptoms didn’t show up until about 30 hours Continue reading
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The Prayer That Shapes You
They say environment shapes you, so when possible, choose your environment carefully. If you can get in, Harvard sounds amazing, but if a disproportionate percentage of professors there are atheists, why not just pick another school? But it’s not just environment that shapes us – prayer shapes us too. Now that’s not the primary thing Continue reading
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Getting Prayer “Right”, Part One
Have ever wondered if you were getting prayer right? I certainly have. Especially in the times when it didn’t seem to be “working”. There are, after all, many ways to pray. Should you pray using a list, or just “freewheel” it? Pray silently or pray aloud? Pray in a group or pray alone? How about Continue reading
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The Kind of Praying that Changes the World
I saw a prayer motto in a church years ago that struck me as right…and WRONG: “Prayer changes me.” OK…sure. Of course, praying changes me. And for the record, I need to be changed. But the sign seemed to suggest something else – that I shouldn’t expect answers to my prayers – I should just expect to be Continue reading
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20 Quotes from Prayer Changes Things
I love good quotes about prayer. They motivate me, and I’ve put different ones on my prayer lists through the years to help me pray. Last time I put my favorite quotes from a recent book on prayer, Enjoy Your Prayer Life, and I promised I would follow up with a list from another short Continue reading
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Pastoral Prayer During the Pandemic
Photo by Zac Durant on Unsplash I led the pastoral prayer this past weekend at Edgewood, and I have included it below for those who might be inclined to use it once or twice for personal prayer during these challenging times. There are so many things to pray for these days. Yes, safety and health…of course. But in Continue reading
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A Great Secret of Prayer…
Here is John Calvin from his Institutes of the Christian Religion expressing a great truth about prayer: “If we would pray fruitfully, we ought therefore to grasp with both hands this assurance of obtaining what we ask, which the Lord enjoins with his own voice, and all the saints teach by their example. For only that Continue reading
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Ten Books I’m Reading (or Recently Read)
We’re redoing our church library and the pastoral staff was asked to compile a list of books we’re reading to make a nice section of recommendations for the church. Here’s what I came up with… Knowing God by J.I. Packer I read this for a Sunday school class back in my college days and recently started Continue reading
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