Sentences with phrase «writing about prayer»

It's like doing card tricks on the radio, I think — writing about prayer and spiritual experience to people who mostly think you're an idiot.

You might have missed this unassuming book but goodness, Micha can write about prayer and motherhood like no one else.

There are few examples of Paul actually praying in the New Testament, but there are several places in Paul's letters where he writes about his prayer requests and how he prays (See Rom 15:5 - 6, 13; Eph 1:16 - 19; 3:16 - 19; Php 1:9 - 11; Col 1:9 - 12; 2 Thess 1:11 - 12).

He has written about prayer in numerous places.

Three of his best works on prayer are «Work and Prayer» in God in the Dock, «The Efficacy of Prayer» in The World's Last Night, and what he writes about prayer in his Letters to Malcolm.

In these verses, Paul writes about prayer.

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.

I find myself learning more and more about my emotions, my thoughts, my viewpoints and my deep heart - wrenched prayers through writing.

Then we wrote this article, fulfilling the prophecy of a supposed RELEVANT reader who tweeted: «Aaaand que RELEVANT with an article titled «You won't believe what Chris Pratt just said about prayer!»

The first is prayer which Paul wrote about in 6:18.

But in that year the editors began to write frequently about the war in Europe, publishing a series of editorials with the titles «God and War,» «Prayer and the War,» «The President and the War» and «Human Progress and the War.»

I wrote about two dozen prayers in as many days, lucid and heartfelt, and the people of my home church distributed them to the congregation in photocopied booklets.

-- Speaking for myself, I have written about my own difficulty with prayer, and how «heaven» nor «hell» are motivators in my life.

Bondi, who teaches at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, recently wrote Memories of God (Abingdon) and is now working on a book about prayer titled In Ordinary Time.

We wrote prayers and discussion questions and picked 31 of our favorite Christian dudes throughout history and wrote profiles about each.

And of course there would be those on the right, advocating for Muslim prayer in schools, not worrying about how the few Christian children might be impacted, and doing whatever they can to write bits of Sharia into the law of the land.

To be serious I loved what you wrote Jeremy about praying in the Will of God, after all if we say the Lords prayer we do say Thy will be done not My will be done.

During the day she wrote about God and prayer and family.

I write a lot more about this in my book, What is Prayer?

God is always active, is always speaking, is always involved, is always answering prayer, and is always working to accomplish His will in the world... even when He is not having people write about it.

I am writing a post about this for tomorrow, when I start to focus on the positive things Scripture says about prayer.

Trent Sheppard of Campus America writes about the spiritual passion it will take to maintain a movement of student prayer.

It's pretty bad when, despite all our Bible study, prayer, and theological reading and writing, we have to learn about grace from those who don't believe in God, who have been kicked out of our churches, and who feel only judgment and condemnation from us.

However, I haver read about the Book of Prayer (s) used by Anglicans the world over... and many positive responses to those types of written prayers.

Along with the Fishing Prayer, another thing I learned about at the Fishing Training Conference was the importance of writing up a document called the «Strategic Help In Training People to Love Angling Now» (SHITPLAN for short).

She read from her mother's bookshelf the letters of Evelyn Underhill, an Anglican spiritual director of the 1930s and 1940s who wrote in a mystical vein about prayer and contemplation.

18 So Mark has written, for once permitting the language of emotion to breach the severe reserve of his narrative Jesus now left his friends and withdrew «about a stone's throw,» to fall into solitary and agonized prayer.

Bonhoeffer's diary records two different episodes during this brief period: «I do not understand why I am here... The short prayer in which we thought of our German brothers almost overwhelmed me... If things become more uncertain, I shall not stay in America...» Later, after his decision to return home, he wrote, «Since I came on board ship, my mental turmoil about the future has gone.

So I tried to write an essay one morning, an essay about prayer.

The programs taught me about (1) admitting I was beat, (2) coming to believe in something greater than myself (eventually a higher power)(many evolutions and concepts of HP, all of these at one time or another: nature, the 12 steps, creator, Love, spiritual principles)(Step 3) applying my low self worth and gigantic Ego to these spiritual principles (4) write down my liabilities and assets (5) share them with another and my higher power (6 & 7) ask for the liabilites to be removed and be patient with the process (8) Make a list of all that were harmed by me (9) make amends to such folks except whn to do so would injure them or myself (10) take a daily inventory of my day, checking for snafus, mean temperment, arrogance etc (11) meditation and prayer to communicate to my higher power and quiet reflection to listen for the Truth (12) after having a spiritual awakening as a result of working these steps, help others if they wish for help because now I am in the position to assist.

And as we look at what Paul tells the various churches about his prayers for them, it often sounds as if he transitions from writing about what he prayers to actually praying.

Father Thomas Keating, who has been writing about and teaching centering prayer for over 25 years, recommends that before you enter into centering prayer you pick a sacred word.

Carl Garrigus writes a blog for RELEVANT about dealing with a cancer diagnosis and how this hard time has led him to seek God through prayer once again.

Not long ago, and I'm sure you remember it as if it were yesterday, I wrote about my search for the perfect prayer book.

If you have a hard time thinking about what He is actually doing, take a moment to write down five things you're grateful for, or a way that God has answered prayers.

It took about two years, but I finally got her ancient worn out prayer book, and she had written me a note in it.

I'll talk a big game about sharing life with fellow Christians, but then I'll avoid inviting friends over for dinner until the house is clean, or I'll write down other people's prayer requests without volunteering any of my own.

Subsequent to introducing his «radically new interpretation of the Lord's Prayer and the Great Commission» (Winter later observed that «radically new» was probably an overstatement) and with a deep - seated desire to understand his kingdom mission, I submitted almost everything I wrote about it to my colleague Ralph Winter in order to make sure that I was not misrepresenting his new position.

In fact I tend to resist doing so - lots of information about visions, and ecstasies, and hours spent in prayer, often written in a very sentimental style, can be rather irritating.

Prayer, we read, write, talk and agonize about it, resolve to do it, wish we'd done it more than we actually do it.

We have quoted the Scots theologian Chalmers who spoke of «the expulsive power of a new affection» as a means of purifying and ennobling human existence; and the historian of French spirituality, Henri Bremond, has written about the way in which prayer, at its best, is «a purification of the self.»

I also attended the mosque prayer service for the first time and wrote about my experience.

In his foreword to the programme for yesterday's all prayer breakfast, David Cameron wrote «I believe very deeply that we should be confident in Britain about our status as a Christian country... Greater confidence in our Christianity can also inspire a stronger belief in our work as politicians to get out there and make a difference to people's lives — and it should inspire our support for churches and faith organisations in the vital work they do in our society and around the world.

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GreatGuy211 wrote poems about her, about how she was sent by God as an answer to his prayers.

Power point of Ganesh, the Hindu God of new beginnings, used to open discussions about new classes for September and a prompt for dramatisation, mask making and writing our own prayers.

I can't tell you how many times I've prayed about being able to make a living from my writing and I'm still praying that same prayer (or rather, version 1,539 of it).

A collaboration between illustrator Robert Beer, an expert on Tibetan silk brocade thangka paintings, and Tad Wise, who has previously written about Tibetan prayer flags, this book is intended not as a curiosity, but for reflection and meditation on the go.