Throughout our series, "Great Prayers of the Bible," we looked at passages of Scripture in which prayer is the central activity. Along with study of those specific Bible passages, I turned to the wisdom of many authors far more brilliant than me and from many different eras for help. At times people ask me whether …
Four Quotations on Prayer
This past weekend in my message "Making Space for Prayer," the first part of our series "The Art of Prayer" at Eastbrook Church, I shared four quotations on prayer that many people asked me about later. Here they are for your edification. “The truth is that we only learn to pray all the time everywhere after …
Beginning in prayer
One thing I know for sure about prayer these days is that we do not know how to pray. It is only the young in Christ who think they know how to pray; the rest of us know we are just beginners. So let's try to begin together, which is really all we can do. …
Matthew Erickson 