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On Platt and Priorities

It’s been an amazing past few days watching the fallout from David Platt’s prayer over president Trump. When I first heard about the situation and read the transcript of the prayer, my initial reaction was quite positive. This was further…

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Praying for the Dead

An individual dies and social media is flooded with sentiments about prayers for the deceased and their family members. Without doubt, it is altogether right and in keeping with a spirit of true Christian charity to pray fervently for the…

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An Evening Prayer

Over the years it has been my practice, learned from others, to offer up praises and petitions framed by a passage of Scripture. Some of these passages were read in preparation for preaching, others offered material for meditation in daily…

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Calvin’s Four Rules of Prayer

Reading through some old notes on Calvin’s Institutes made me realize what always gets dropped when life feels like one giant game of whirlyball: prayer. Calvin says that if we do not pray, we are like a man who “neglect[s] a treasure, buried…

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A Child’s Prayer

Dear father in heaven, Thank you for giving me sleep last night, and for keeping me safe to live this new day. I am a child, so please help me to do all things through Christ, the One who strengthens…

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Origen on Prayer

Until the third century, as far as we know, no full treatise on the subject of Christian prayer had been written. According to Eric Jay, “Christian literature of the first two centuries by no means ignores the subject of prayer.…

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Origen on Prayer

Until the third century, as far as we know, no full treatise on the subject of Christian prayer had been written. According to Eric Jay, “Christian literature of the first two centuries by no means ignores the subject of prayer.…