How To Pray For Our Country

How To Pray For Our Country

I WAS ASKED TO LEAD THE PASTORAL PRAYER at the Path of Life fundraising banquet last night. I led us in a prayer of contrition for the sins of our nation. Although most joining me in prayer had not committed the sins we confessed, we confessed them in the first person...
What Does It Mean To Pray “In Jesus Name?”

What Does It Mean To Pray “In Jesus Name?”

ONE SUNDAY MORNING ONE OF OUR ELDERS led the congregation in intercession. He opened something like this, “Father, you are utterly holy. Your presence can bear no sin. Even the mountains and hills, corrupted by human, sin will flee from you on the day of final...

How I Learned that God Hears Prayer!

I RECENTLY RETIRED from a life of preaching. It was a difficult decision, and a sad day, but one that had to come. At my retirement party God indelibly engraved on my heart a crucial lesson. God hears prayer. I believe passionately in the ministry of preaching. I also...