Meditation
In what does your prayer consist?
Describe your life of prayer. When you sit down to pray, what do you say or think or do?
Meditation
Youth soccer
Are there levels in Christianity? Can you level up as in a video game? Are there graduation ceremonies and opening convocations? Are there different leagues?
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Rend the heavens!
Apparently Isaiah wasn’t very good at prayer, or maybe he wasn’t righteous enough, or he didn’t have enough faith.
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What is a river?
When you pray, do you ever twist God’s arm and try to coerce him into letting _you_ give _him_ something?
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A channel of grace
A metaphor is like a gas tank full of alcohol. It’ll get you going, but you don’t want to drive it too far or your vehicle will cough and choke. [How’s that for a meta metaphor?]
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Communion of saints
Read Acts 2:42-47. The author of the Cloud of Unknowing describes how to enter into yourself and to seek God in love. “God is apprehended not by reason but by love,” “for it is love alone that can reach God in this life.” Thus, the prayer he describes is a Read more…
Meditation
That your joy may be complete
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in Read more…
Meditation
Ask, and it will be given you
Read Luke 11:1-13 So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. (Luke 11:9) When I was growing up, sitting in a long, boring church service, counting bricks, counting tiles, studying how the Read more…