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5 Steps to Help You Practice Meditation
It is worth asking whether contemporary evangelicals have neglected or even forgotten the once-esteemed practice of meditation altogether.
Articles on Prayer
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How to Pray When You Feel Like You Pray the Same Thing Every Day
When we pray Scripture, whether it’s a psalm or any other passage, we have fresh ideas to fuel our prayers each day.
How to Read the Bible Through the Lens of the Gospel
Before we explore how to apply our understanding and love for the gospel in our Bible reading, let us begin with five essential principles to keep in mind whenever we engage with God’s Word.
True repentance is more than simply acknowledging our wrongs and feeling sorry for what we have done; it is turning from our ways and returning to God.
A Liturgy for Your Daily Worship Today from the Psalms
“I love you, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.”
7 Tips for Getting More out of Sunday Sermons
Here are some small practices that can strengthen our grasp on the precious truths being handed to us in these moments.
3 Different Kinds of Knowledge Paul Prays For
Believers who know God should always want to know him more, to be where he is, to meditate on his loveliness. We can never have enough of God.
Daniel Shows Us How to Plead with God When You’ve Blown It Badly
Daniel 9 gives us a surprising answer to a deeply practical question: How do you approach God when you’ve blown it badly?
The Psalms Help Our Own Prayers Become Broader and Deeper
Praying the psalms helps me pray more broadly but also more deeply. Broadly, the psalms remind me to pray for many more things than I would tend to think of on my own.
What We Learn About the Power of the Word from Jesus’s High Priestly Prayer
The fact that we do not hear many of the words Christ offered in his many prayers on earth makes the words of John 17 a sort of entrance into the holy of holies.
Podcast: Practical Tips to Help You Pray More (Courtney Reissig)
Courtney Reissig discusses the importance of prayer and how prayer helps us trust God by coming to him in a posture of dependency.
4 Practical Tools to Help You Pray
The Lord’s personal habits in prayer also provided a model for the disciples—and for us. Jesus’s example shows us that prayer doesn’t happen accidentally. We must be purposeful in prayer.
At times, the Bible is heavy on warnings. That’s the case for the topic of fasting. It can be frustrating to those of us who want a straightforward instruction manual for this spiritual discipline.
Podcast: A Beginner’s Guide to Fasting (Cassie Achermann)
Cassie Achermann discusses what fasting is, how the Bible talks about it, and how you can begin to practice it.
Answering Kids’ Hardest Questions: How Can I Know God Hears Me When I Pray?
How do I know God hears me when I pray? This is a question that your kid might ask, or something similar to it, and it’s a natural one.
What Makes Christian Prayer Christian?
Joel R. Beeke, Paul M. Smalley
Nothing is more characteristic of the child of God than that he prays to God. Prayer should be as natural to the regenerate soul as breathing is to a living body.
Sharonda Cooper and Winfree Brisley talk about the way that the Psalms shape our prayer life, teach us about God, and show us to turn to him in any of life’s circumstances.
5 Ways to Pray with Your Kids During the Day (That Aren’t at Dinnertime)
Through moments of prayer, we teach our kids the value of devotion to Jesus, of staying connected to him, and yielding to him. We also demonstrate how the gospel meets us in everyday scenarios.
Podcast: How Do I Teach My Children to Pray? (Kristen Wetherell)
Kristen Wetherell reviews common struggles parents may have when talking about prayer with their children and how to create prayerful environments for them.
We consecrate our bodies and exercise to God “by the word of God and prayer” (1 Tim. 4:5)—through what he says to us (in his word) and what we say back to him (in our prayers). So what do we say?
Psalm 74 Shows Us How to Make an Argument to God
Ultimately, we submit to his lordship and walk in obedience. But Psalm 74 shows us that there is an appropriate way to bring an argument to God that honors him and expresses our faith.
Tim Keller’s Most Personal Regret in His 50 Years of Ministry
It’s easy to pray in emergencies and pray when you need something. But what requires the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit is not just praying to get things but praying to get God.
How Prayer Actually Works: To the Father, Through the Son, By the Spirit
You don’t have to get your Trinitarian theology all sorted out before you can pray to the Trinity. Our God hears prayers. He does not wait for us to pass the theology test before he listens to us praying.
Tim Keller on the Struggle with Prayer and the Pathway to Enjoying God
Prayer was not just a challenging writing topic, it was also a discipline of great personal struggle for Keller, as it is for countless believers. Yet, the great struggle yielded unimaginable reward.
The Irreplaceable Value of Prayer in Your Spiritual Formation
If Christians confess that God is personal, both capable and desirous of real relationship with his creatures, then to talk to him should be as natural as it is necessary.
Prayer Is and Should Be Trinitarian
I am more convinced than ever that prayer is and should be Trinitarian. Of course, this doesn’t mean that every single prayer must reference the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Podcast: What We Can Learn from the Prayers of Church History (Zach Carter and Jonathan Arnold)
Zach Carter and Jonathan Arnold help us understand and engage with written prayers throughout church history.
Wrestling with God’s Silence in the Face of Inexplicable Suffering
God does not object to our groanings, our pleas for help, our desperate whimpers when we can’t even form words. He invites us to question him.
Prayers of Old Remind Us That We Are Not Alone
Looking at prayers that came from those before us was just an opportunity for me to personally dive into where the church has been and to understand that we’re not alone.
4 Ways Paul Prayed for You to Be Strengthened
Kneeling shows that we are coming to a sovereign whom we depend on. It is also often associated with extreme passion and neediness. It reflects our desperation.