This Sunday’s Gospel offers another parable about prayer. Each of this Sunday’s readings suggests that God hears anyone who cries out, especially the brokenhearted. As the Gospel narrative nears the ...

“Christ on the Mount of Olives,” by Josef Untersberger. (Credit: Public domain.) Listen The call to prayer requires teaching and encouragement. While we were made by God and for God, and have a ...

In our Gospel today from St. John, Chapter l7, we have Jesus at prayer at the Last Supper praying for His disciples to be one with Jesus as He was one with the Father, God and Creator. We have little ...

Jesus was praying. Spurred by his example, one of his disciples asks him to teach them how to do it. John the Baptist had taught his disciples; you teach us. There’s a lot to unpack in those few ...

Interceding in community is vital to the Christian life. A young Chinese woman with a rare chronic disease spent most of her days in darkness in the early 20th century. As Christiana Tsai lay in her ...

With more than one million books in print, bestselling author Henry Blackaby's newest manual on praying efficaciously will no doubt win him continued fame as this text is also being touted as the ...

Prayer, as petition or worship, is practiced in as many forms as the human imagination allows. This Sunday’s readings demonstrate the role of resistance and persistence at the core of the experience ...