I’m slowly reading this book on prayer by Tim Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God. Having heard how he speaks, it takes several times listening to a talk to digest and get the denseness of thought that he presents. Same thing with the book. One chapter talked about praying to God requires that I …
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How does giving thanks help us?
Thank you for finding this blog post. I like to start my blog post with giving thanks for my readers. The title of this blog post I have Duckduckgo search engine to thank. I confess that I am not very good at giving thanks. I know I should do it more. I know it’s supposed …
Experiment to Experiencing God
For whatever reasons in recent history, we here in the United States are hearing more about hurricanes and massacres and scandals. That can be understandable weighty. And this is added on top of the human condition, where occasionally people get diseases, like nobody wants to hear the words, “You have cancer.” Some people lose loved …
My hopes for the readers here
Thank you for being readers of this prayer blog that are following along with my experiement in blogging for 30 weeks. This is my experiment in practicing praying by blogigng and also minimizing the use of Christian jargon that is hard for normal people to understand. This is my prayer for readers of this blog, …
Pray together when you’re not together
Praying is a conversation with God. When the conversation includes several other people, it’s even better. Praying together is better because others can join in agreement, God listens to those words more emphatically, in one sense. Praying together brings people relationally and spiritually closer. There are other benefits I think, even though I don’t have …