In our last post we took up the difficult problem of Unanswered Prayer. Why didn’t God answer my prayer? We began first to look at some essential ingredients to the kinds of prayers God answers. One of those essential ingredients is that God answers the prayers of his children. Most people would assume, “That’s no […]
Anybody There? The Problem of Unanswered Prayer
March 16, 2017 By
One of the biggest challenges to the faith of the average disciple is unanswered prayer. Why didn’t God answer my prayer? Why didn’t God heal my loved one who was suffering from cancer? Why didn’t God help my addicted child in the manner I asked him? Why am I still jobless (or single, or childless, […]
Hallowed Be Thy Name
June 23, 2016 By
An athlete focused on things other than training isn’t going to be a very good athlete (at least not for too long). A musician who doesn’t devote her primary energies to practicing will never be a great musician. Devote the scraps and leftovers of your energies to your relationship with your spouse and you will […]
Teach Us to Pray: Model Prayer
April 28, 2016 By
Christianity isn’t magic. God’s not a genie. There is no necessary correlation between performing certain religious ceremonies and experiencing good things. If we think about any prayer in this way (including the Lord’s Prayer), we’ve got it all wrong. This is superstition. Perhaps one of the great tragedies of the Lord’s Prayer is that it […]
Teach Us to Pray: Small But Powerful
April 20, 2016 By
One teaspoon of botulinum toxin is enough to kill more than 1 billion human beings (or so the Internet tells me; I’ve never experimented). Some ants can lift as much as 5,000 times their body weight. Small doesn’t mean weak. More of something isn’t always better than less. This is true of prayer. It is […]
