ARTICLES
Praying in the Spirit: Assurance, Words, and Comfort for the Hardships of Life
We’ve all experienced small-scale deaths, disappointments, and disorientation. Yet, no matter what comes, we can ask God to grow us in this privilege of praying in the Holy Spirit.
Three Gifts We Are Guaranteed in Prayer
Our time in prayer gives us the incredible gift of humbly gazing on God’s power, victory, and glory already present in each of our days.
When Prayer Starts With Panic
God isn’t asking you to be strong enough to handle everything. He’s asking you to trust that he’s near even in the mess.
When Silence Deepens Faith
Remember the prayers he has answered on your behalf. Remember the mountains he has moved. Remember the cross of Calvary.
A Simple Way to Revamp Your Prayer Life
More often than I’d like to admit, my daily call to worship involves scrolling rather than Scripture, prating instead of prayer.
Saul, the Medium of Endor, and Our Too-Strong Longing to Know God’s Will
The bizarre story has roots in a common but wrong longing.
When Christians Consult the World-Wide-Web as Psychic
How our prayer life suffers because of the information at our fingertips.
Praying the Scriptures: A Practice for When Words are Hard to Find
Have you wanted to pray for someone, but you just didn’t know what to pray?
God-Centered Prayer
Sometimes we don’t know what to pray, as Paul writes in Romans, because our trials our too intense for words. But sometimes we don’t know what words to pray simply because we haven’t paid enough attention to God’s Word.
Persistence in Unanswered Prayer
We can take comfort that while we may feel our prayers are unanswered, no child of God has ever prayed a prayer that went unheard.
Partnership in Prayer
An entire body of believers in Michigan was praying for a sister in South Carolina all because a 95-year-old woman saw the value of prayer. In the days following that interaction, I couldn’t stop thinking about how indispensable prayer is to the health of the global church.
Thanksgiving Challenge: A Message in a Bottle
As a Christian living in the United Kingdom, I have never been to a Thanksgiving dinner nor have I ever celebrated the meal. So I’m obviously the “perfect” candidate to write a Thanksgiving article.