Christina Stafford provides a practical prayer guide equipping believers to pray with confidence and biblical focus for ...

Do you know how to pray? Some people only pray when they are in trouble, need a favor or want to receive some sort of blessing. God doesn't care when you pray. He just wants to have a relationship ...

Many, many people whom I meet want to pray, or pray better, but struggle. Indeed, a friend of mine often quips, “If you want to humble a Christian, ask him how his prayer life is.” And this is not a ...

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Perhaps there is no prayer uttered more often by Christians than the Our Father. And there is good reason for this frequency, because Jesus himself taught it to his disciples when they asked him how ...

Christians with neurodivergence are exploring other options for devotions and Bible study. Emily Hubbard recalls a trend in women’s discipleship that urged women to rest in Jesus and “stop trying to ...

Prayer, as petition or worship, is practiced in as many forms as the human imagination allows. This Sunday’s readings demonstrate the role of resistance and persistence at the core of the experience ...

Jesus’ story (not technically a parable) of Lazarus and the rich man (traditionally known as “Dives”) is found in Luke 16:19-31. I won’t cite the entire passage here, as I usually do, for lack of ...

Which way is transfiguration? Must I go through temptation to get there? How do I get from wilderness to garden, from cross to crown? First of all, because the terrain is trackless and windswept, ...

Readings: Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18 Luke 18:9-14 Perhaps this is a provocative assertion, one whose truth you might initially be inclined to deny, though it probably corresponds to ...