Showing posts with label Prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prayer. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

The prayer of atheists.

Breakeven

Noting
1) the lyrics of "The script" song "breakeven"
2) the fact that google returns over 6 million results for the exact sentence "pray to a god I don't believe in". seems people can't help it. Perhaps people believe there is a God after all.
3) Why, when I believe there is a God do I not more often turn to him in prayer? Are we too often practical atheists?

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Great posts on prayer... again

So, I highlighted these posts on prayer a while ago... but re-read them today in preparation for preaching on Colossians 1:9-14 tomorrow. They are still extremely helpful.
I particularly appreciated the post on 6 excuses for not praying. I found them both helpful and convicting.

Friday, September 21, 2007

Great posts on prayer


My friend from Oak Hill, Richard Perkins, has done a good series of posts on prayer.

some great quotes from the series.
Don Carson writes...
"It matters little whether you are the mother of active children who drain away your energy, an important executive in a major multinational corporation, a graduate student cramming for impending comprehensives, a plumber working overtime to put your children through college, or a pastor of a large church putting in ninety hours a week: at the end of the day, if you are too busy to pray, you are too busy. Cut something out"
and...
‘Although abstractly I may affirm the importance of prayer, in reality I may treat prayer as important only in the lives of other people, especially those whom I judge to be weaker in character, more needy, less competent, less productive. Thus, while affirming the importance of prayer, I may not feel deep need for prayer in my own life’.
Philip Jensen & Tony Payne write...
‘Every time we open our mouths in prayer, we are saying, ‘I know you are able, I know you are willing, I know you are my creator and Father through the Lord Jesus Christ, and I know that you have promised to hear me when I call to you in prayer’.
John Bunyan writes,
‘Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God has promised, or according to His word, for the good of the church, with submission in faith to the will of God’.
There's more great stuff in the posts. Go Read!