Prayer doesn’t transfer our work back to God. Prayer invites God’s grace to accompany us in our work.

Management and the Spirit’s work aren’t opposed to one another. The Spirit helps us manage better. You just don’t want managing to be in the driver’s seat.

It is with a concern that we persist or begin, if we are not praying, that I humbly offer the following prayer.

I want to encourage and motivate us as Christians to give ourselves to the practice of prayer.

Uganda is hosting some 2,000 Afghan refugees; the first wave of 500 was expected yesterday.

As people suffer physically and economically, the month-long prayer initiative provides a structured way to pray for the needs inside and outside the church.

Indwelling Spirit, empower your people to serve: 
to get wisdom, and live by it, and share it freely;
to embody peace amid the strife of tongues.

There’s nothing in the Constitution ensuring a right not to be offended. We are blessed and sometimes burdened by freedom of speech, but there’s no such thing as freedom from speech.

A child beginning the Pray for Me Campaign at age 5 could have as many as 45 adults praying for him if he continues through high school. That amounts to nearly 10,000 prayers from adult generations on behalf of one student.

The spoken “Amen” of a brother or sister assures us that we do not stand alone but that our prayer has become “the joint and humble supplication of hundreds of penitent and believing souls, all engaged in pouring out their hearts to the God of salvation.”