Posts with the tag “pray”

There is a difference between praying out of desperation and praying out of authority. Most of us know what desperation sounds like. It sounds like whispered pleas in the dark, bargaining with God in ...  Read More

There is something deeply powerful about a person who knows exactly who they are and exactly who they need. No pretense, no performance, just honest acknowledgment of both their limits and their sourc...  Read More

There is a moment in the Gospel of Matthew that stops you in your tracks if you read it slowly enough. A Roman centurion — a man accustomed to commanding hundreds of soldiers, a man who understood pow...  Read More

There is a version of prayer that most of us settle for. It is reactive, rushed, and reserved for emergencies. We reach for it the way we reach for a first aid kit, only when something has already gon...  Read More