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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Our Father is not so much a formula as it is an invitation into Jesus’ own relationship with God. Once we enter that intimate place, we realize that we don’t need a lot of words — to babble like ...

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 ...

Imams praise the UAE government for the resumption of the prayers after a period of closure necessitated by the pandemic The prayers called Jumuah and the sermons that precede it resumed eight months ...

In Matthew, Chapter 6, Jesus compares the religious behavior of two distinct types of persons. In verse 5, Jesus points out the behavior of those who use religion for self-righteous reasons. Verse 6 ...

I promised myself I was going to get through the current legislative session without publicly renewing my standing concerns about the daily invocations that open House and Senate sessions. And then ...