What is it about prayer that links it to preaching? Why would a person like Martin Luther set down as a spiritual axiom that “he who has prayed well has studied well”? Why would E. M. Bounds, the ...

Today’s reassuring words on the efficacy of prayer follow Jesus’s instruction on praying the “Our Father.” Once we acknowledge this intimate relationship with the Abba, Jesus wants us to assume that ...

Three things I ask God to do when I’m in the pulpit. I publicly pray before I start my sermons. I also privately pray as I preach. Multiple things go through the preacher's mind during a sermon. The ...

The liturgy of our seventeenth Sunday teaches us a lesson on the paternal quality of God’s mercy which instills confidence in man who in turn feels the necessity to pray to God.

“When the Son of Man comes, will he find any faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8). We are hearing a lot about “quid pro quo” in the news these days. This Latin phrase describes any transaction in which ...

The Imam of our local mosque has made a system to deliver short speeches on various islamic topics say for 5-10 minutes before starting the maghrib salat in jamat almost everyday. Is it ok according ...