PRIORITIZING PRAYER We live in a day characterized by the multiplication of man’s machinery and the diminution of God’s power. The great cry of our day is work, work, work, […]
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KEEP PRAYING During his many appearances in summer stock in the role of Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof,” Robert Merrill had learned to expect the unexpected. “One night on
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GOD LOVES STORIES When the great Rabbi Israel Baal Shem- Tov saw misfortune threatening the Jews, it was his custom to go into a certain part of the forest to
GOD LEAVES MESSAGES The Actual Account: Since I am the pastor of three Lutheran churches, I have to make the use of an answering machine both at my home office
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WINDOW OF OUR SPIRITS Open wide the window of our spirits, O Lord, and fill us full of light; open wide the door of our hearts that we may receive
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EXPAND GOD’S PRESENCE To pray is to bring God back into the world… to expand God’s presence. Talking about God is idle chatter unless we first learn to talk to
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FULL-TIME PRAYER You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I
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HOME AT LAST or MOVING WITH GOD Straight from the pages of Romans 8:28 comes a real-life story of faith, prayer and God’s provision: When our family returned to the
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THE PRAYER OF ST FRANCIS God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
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HALLOWED BE FOOTBALL Our football, which art on television, hallowed be thy game. The fullback run, the passes be flung, in Miami as it is in Dallas. Give us this
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BASIC ACTIONS AND ATTITUDES One of the excuses that so many people give for not praying is “I’m just too busy. I don’t have time to pray.” We all know
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ACTIVE PRAYER LIFE The pious, but cranky, old lady was put out because her neighbors had not invited her to a picnic. On the morning of the picnic one of
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ASSISI & HUMILITY Dom Helder Camara tells an apocryphal tale about a conversation between St. Francis of Assisi and another monk: St. Francis and Brother Leo were walking together. Brother
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CHURCHES & PRAYERS Intercessory prayers have become ceremonial vestiges in our churches — rituals which baptize meetings as they begin and bury them when they end. Such prayers ignore the
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GET HIM READY, LORD! A prayer for preachers: Oh, Lord, give Brother Jones the eye of an eagle, so that he may see sin from afar; luminate his brow with
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“. . . unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven” (Matthew 18:3). A little girl had a problem. She was very
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“The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed, and will bring me safely to His Heavenly Kingdom…” (II Timothy 4:18). A woman who was a very faithful Church-goer had
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“Keep watching and praying” (Matthew 26:41). “In our quest for God we think too much, reflect too much, talk too much,” says the celebrated mystic, Anthony de Mello… “Be silent
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“They were all astonished and praised God, and were filled with awe, saying ’we have seen strange things today’” (Luke 5:26). A pastor went to the hospital to visit one
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“For I am not ashamed of the Good News: it is the power of God saving all who have faith” (Romans 1:16). “Lord, give us a miracle,” we pray. But
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