Jesus' journey of prayer for unity continues as He unveils that there is power through transformed relationships…and that power comes through prayer. My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I …
The Power of Proactive Prayer
There’s a common proverb that says “hindsight is 20/20.” This saying means that it's easy to see the right thing to do after it has already happened. It also admits that it is difficult to predict the future. The reason we say this so often is that, as humans, we often understand what the right thing …
Praying Ourselves Toward Unity
Whenever I think about the unity that we are called to as brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ under the Fatherhood of God, I often wonder how we actually can move into that reality? If you’re like me, you can look back at the history of the church and see divisions: between Eastern and Western …
A Prayer by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lord… We thank you for your church, founded upon your Word, that challenges us to do more than sing and pray, but go out and work as though the very answer to our prayers depended on us and not upon you. Help us to realize that humanity was created to shine like the stars and …
Distracted and Divided from the Good Life
In an article entitled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Nicholas Carr wrote: Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case any …
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