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How to Keep Your Mind on Your Prayers

Does your mind wander when you’re praying? Do you close your eyes, ready to talk to God and…

How to Help Others with a 10-Second Prayer

Years ago, my friend Steve introduced me to the practice of offering 10-second prayers. A pastor who had…

How to Give Yourself Some Precious Time to Hear God

When I was a kid, one of four rowdy kids, my mom used to say to us in…

How the Bible Can Help When You’re Having a Down Day

I usually turn to the Bible to read it, forgetting how it can also be prayed. On a…

How Jesus Prayed When He Was Overwhelmed

Life can be overwhelming. There are so many things to remember, choices to make, challenges to overcome. Sometimes…

For a Fresh Way to Pray, Try the ‘I Am’ Sayings of Jesus

It’s easy to get stuck in a prayer rut—praying the same things in the same way over and…

Do You Only Pray for People You Know?

If you only pray for the people you know and love, you might inject new vibrancy into your…

Dishwashing Prayers

My wife Carol is the cook in our family and a very fine cook she is. But I…

A Simple Model for Prayer

In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. (Matthew 6:9) I have recently…

8 Ways to Pray With Your Body

I first encountered the Jewish practice of shucklen—a Yiddish word which means to shake or rock) at the…

7 Ways to Pray with Shakespeare

I am something of a Shakespeare nut. I have read—and seen performed—all of his plays, most of them…

7 Ways to Pray Without Ceasing

Every time I hear that phrase from Paul, “pray without ceasing” or “pray continually” as the Common English…

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