An Invitation to Prayer
​June 28, 2020

​Why pray? The reason is simple. We pray because our heart seeks its true home and its true home is the heart of God.  God longs for our presence.

What Is Prayer?
​July 5, 2020

​When we live with God at the center of all we do, when we live in oneness with Jesus Christ, we are living a life of prayer, a life of constant conversation with God.

Does God Answer Our Prayers?
July 12, 2020

​God knows our hearts and needs better than we do. With boldness, the psalmist writes “But truly God has listened; he has given heed to the words of my prayer” (Psalm 66:19). The only question for us is whether we will trust God. Will we trust that God listens and answers, even when it seems to us that God does not?​

Stories of Prayer
​July 19, 2020

​Sometimes we are tempted to view such miraculous answers to prayer as those rare occasions when God (whom we mistakenly think of as a sort of absentee landlord) chooses to intervene in the natural order of life. But this is not the biblical view. Instead, God is active and caring in the world, in our lives, every day and in all ways. Prayer is not a once-in-awhile request.

The Basic Ingredients of Prayer
​July 26, 2020

​The basic ingredients of prayer are the ingredients that build trust between two persons: honesty, sincerity, caring, thanking, appreciating, loving, serving . . . add to this list yourself.
​And in the end, pray with a trusting heart.

​Building a Life of Prayer
August 2, 2020

​In all this, we are to grasp that building a life of prayer is far more than carving out a few minutes each day to say a prayer. Rather, it is living a life in unceasing, persistent conversation with God.