African-American Prayer Meeting after the end of the U. S. Civil War ———————— SUNDAY MORNING PRAYERS FROM THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHURCH From Conversations With God: Two Centuries of African-American Prayers, ed. James Melvin Washington, pp. 56, 145; © 1994, HarperCollins. Almighty and all wise God our heavenly Father! ’tis once more and again that a […]
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Praying Hands, 1507, Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) ————————— Steer the ship of my life, good Lord, to your quiet harbor, where I can be safe from the storms of sin and conflict. Show me the course I should take. Renew in me the gift of discernment, so that I can always see the right direction in
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KYRIE ELEISON (Latin), ‘Lord, Have Mercy’ ——————— (…continued) The final phrase of this simple prayer is, “Lord, have mercy.” Mercy is a wonderful word. It is a word that one who is weak and needs help will use in asking for assistance from one who is stronger and able to help. This is a
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The Angelus 1858, Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875) ——————————– (…continued) Another example of not knowing how to pray would be in the area of farming. All farmers everywhere always hope for good weather and a good growing season and a good crop. But also, farmers know that if every farmer in the world had a good
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One evening, years ago, I went outside to drive the car into the old garage next to our house. It was one of the coldest and windiest nights of that winter, but I hadn’t put on a cap or gloves because I was going to be out there for only a minute. I
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“What to Do When Jesus is Too Late to Help” by Joshua Rogers, posted November 2, 2020, at http://www.joshuarogers.com There’s a line of an old Southern Gospel song I’ve been repeating in my head recently: “When He’s four days late, He’s still on tiiiiiiime!” I probably heard the song at church 25 years ago when
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Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a journalist and social activist. Her parents rarely attended church, but Dorothy became active in an Episcopal church when she was a teenager. She joined the Catholic church at the age of 30. Along with Peter Maurin she founded the Catholic Worker Movement, which combined direct aid for the
A story told by Tom Housholder, pastor/evangelist in the former American Lutheran Church. The story took place in the 1950’s in Housholder’s first congregation. I heard him tell this story when I was on internship in Sisseton, South Dakota in 1979. ————————— Elmer lived the life of a hermit in a remote cabin
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By John Piper, posted May 29, 2020 at: http://www.desiringgod.org . For 44 years John Piper has made his home in Minneapolis, a city now on fire with riots and unrest. He offers this prayer to God in the midst of the turmoil. Piper is the founder of Desiring God Ministries and chancellor of Bethlehem College
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By Matt Chandler (pictured above; 1974- ), pastor at The Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas. ——————————————- All of us are only a phone call away from our life changing forever. We will get sick. We will lose loved ones. Trials will come. And we don’t know when suffering will hit us.
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