Exploring the Theology,
History & Practice of Prayer

I hate quitting. I hate letting go of a dream. I hate acknowledging that I was wrong. But as I’ve grown in age (and hopefully in wisdom), I’ve come to the realization that sometimes Giving Up is the...
The other day I heard a Bible teacher argue that we should be very cautious about presenting our will, or our desires to God in prayer. She drew from a passage in 1 Samuel 8, where the people of...
My son David has a Spotify playlist entitled “Songs my dad almost liked.” I’m pretty impressed that he picked up on my love-hate relationship with these tracks that on the one hand, are musically...
In the opening series of posts, we kept coming back to a radical idea: that prayer is somehow needed in order for God’s good purposes to be accomplished on the earth. Some people may have a hard...

Quotations

Augustine

Augustine

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St. Augustine & the Sovereignty of God
St. Augustine on Prayer