Not exact matches
In the
book of Philippians, the Apostle
Paul writes «Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by
prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
And say a
prayer for all the final editing and production of the big
book on
Paul!
Consider the first - person plurals of the Lord's
Prayer («Our Father...»), Jesus's prayers before meals, his blessing of children, the audible prayers both in the Temple and in synagogues (often called «prayer houses»), the stories of national prayer in the Old Testament, and the communal prayers of the early Christian churches recorded in the book of Acts and the letters of
Prayer («Our Father...»), Jesus's
prayers before meals, his blessing of children, the audible
prayers both in the Temple and in synagogues (often called «
prayer houses»), the stories of national prayer in the Old Testament, and the communal prayers of the early Christian churches recorded in the book of Acts and the letters of
prayer houses»), the stories of national
prayer in the Old Testament, and the communal prayers of the early Christian churches recorded in the book of Acts and the letters of
prayer in the Old Testament, and the communal
prayers of the early Christian churches recorded in the
book of Acts and the letters of
Paul.
God is Redeeming Life, Redeeming Scripture Bible & Theology Topics: answers to
prayer,
Books I'm Writing, Close Your Church for Good, Discipleship, how to pray, Letters of
Paul,
Paul, pray to God, What is
prayer
He can not now merely rely on something given and objective as wholly constituting his theology, as if the Bible or the creeds or the
prayer book or Karl Barth or
Paul Tillich or Martin Luther were all the theology he needed.
If I tried to summarize my deepest spiritual aspiration, I would use the words of St
Paul, «It is no longer I that live, but Christ Jesus lives in me» (Galatians 2, 20), or I would echo the yearning from the
Prayer of Humble Access in the
Book of Common
Prayer that «I might evermore dwell in Christ and he in me».
But in this Year of St
Paul we do need to get near to him, and in these small
prayer -
books he suddenly seems much nearer than in a formal reading at Mass..