the sick person will ask God to help him -- that's taken for granted. We are always to pray -- about everything. But when illness becomes serious, the sick person doesn't need to rely only upon his own faith; he is to call for the elders. (Of course, this isn't to be a new...
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.10For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.11Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake...
in a setting of fear. He is fleeing enemies and looking for refuge. For the first thirteen verses, David describes his situation. Then in verse 14 he says, BUT…
This is the only prayer that Jesus ever taught His disciples. It must certainly be profitable for us then to understand it properly. Jesus said that whenever we pray we were to pray in this way (verses 9). That doesn't mean that we have to repeat this prayer each time we pray. But...
In our communal enforced solitude we may have just the right hermitage for facing into the truth of ourselves and going deeper into our prayer and silence. In the Winter issue ofHoly Ground,which I wrote before the virus erupted, “Deep personal and communal changes are not something we roll...