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Why don’t we pray? – Part 5
The Prodigal Son is an incredibly well known story (Luke 15:11-32). But often the focus is on the younger son, who leaves home with his inheritance from his not-yet-dead Father, squanders it, and returns to find and experience the grace … Continue reading
Establishing a Rhythm of Daily Prayer – Part 3
Part 1 – Start Small Part 2 – Be consistent Many of us have prayed regularly at some points in our lives. But at some point, the ‘regularity’ turned into ‘spasmodic’. And we wake up one day realising that prayer … Continue reading
Establishing a Rhythm of Daily Prayer – Part 2
Part 1 – Start small This series of posts is looking at how we establish a rhythm of daily prayer. Periodically, I have prayed frequently and regularly but very rarely (actually never) have I established a rhythm of prayer. So … Continue reading
Why don’t we pray? – Part 4
There are deep movements of our hearts, that in the normal course of events, we are often unaware of. They surface during times of change or transition. They surface when things that we have relied on for a sense of … Continue reading
Why don’t we pray? – Part 3
Part 1 – the sermon teaser. Part 2 – the depths of our desires – the first part of what I shared on Sunday. The second part of Sunday’s Sermon was Mary and Martha (Lk 10:38-42). Martha and Mary are … Continue reading
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The Depths of Our Desires
Or “Why don’t we don’t we Pray? – Part 2 Part 1 can be read here. This is a short summary of the first part of what I said yesterday (Sunday 13th September) at church. The audio will be available … Continue reading
Establishing a rhythm of daily prayer 1
I am inviting people to pray. Or perhaps, more accurately, I am inviting people to learn to pray. I think Jesus is inviting us to learn to pray. The disciples, good Jews one and all, and therefore men who knew … Continue reading
Why don’t we pray?
Why don’t we pray? If I knew the answer to that one, I could write a book, become famous … Bill Hybels did it, in 1988, when no-one had heard of Bill Hybels or Willowcreek. “Too Busy not to Pray”. … Continue reading
Monumental Service
Last Sunday, I invited our congregation to practice the spiritual discipline of daily prayer. You can read a summary of my talk in the previous post (somehow the words on the computer screen don’t have quite the life that they … Continue reading
What do you want me to do for you?
After my sermon teaser last week, perhaps I should write how I have found an answer to the question I posed? In that post, I asked what you would answer, if Jesus stood before you, and asked: “What do you … Continue reading