Recently our church’s small group leaders met to think about improving prayer in the life of our groups. I thought I’d share the ideas we came up with since they’ll be good for group leaders and helpful for group members as well. Firstly, though—‘improving’ prayer is not really a...
A small team travelled to Ukraine to help facilitate non-stop prayer for 130 young people who had gathered from all parts of the war-torn nation to seek God. One young person said “I have never felt and experienced the peace and presence of God like we had in the prayer room.” ...
Some of the key elements in John Baillie’s theology were continuous throughout his life, and even when modified by later developments in theological thought, his own intellectual development was more a changing continuity than a process of newer ideas displacing the old in his thinking. In the...
PrayerUwas created by Harvest Prayer Ministries to make high quality content and practicum on prayer easily accessible to individuals, small groups and churches, at an affordable annual membership cost. This user-friendly, online (or in-person) platform allows churches to offer courses for their pe...
Praying in groups is wrong – we should only pray when we are alone (using only a piece of scripture to justify a position) As a result of the various reasons people gave me to keep from accomplishing my job, God started giving me creative prayer ideas and a greater understanding that en...
Happy Thanksgiving Prayer 2023 : Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November. And for giving thanks, we are providing you a prayer of Thanksgiving.
The practice of prayer has been shown to predict various mental health outcomes, with different types of prayer accounting for different outcomes. Considering the numerous stressors facing seminary students, which have only intensified throughout the COV
In California during the 1960s and 70’s, members of the church left Christian Science in droves. The reasons for the exodus are murky. A speculation is, Californians tend to try liberal, innovative and far-out groups such as the Human Potential Movement, the Children of God, Scientology, ...
Christmas Projects for Older People to Give and to Receive Leaves and small limbs picked up in yard Simple, new decoration for a table or door delivered and put in place Christmas food delivered (pie, dressing, fruit salad, candy, ham, etc.) ...
(humanitarian, inclusivity-diversity, awareness days / weeks / months, bank holidays etc.), and dates of Oxford interfaith events (i.e. that include two or more faith groups). From January to May 2024, I was part of a small cohort of participants in the new ‘LGBTQ+ Allies for the ...