How specific are your prayers? Perhaps you’ve never given this question any thought. Take some time and think about it – listen to yourself. When you pray, how specific or general are your prayers?Keep it GenericYou see, I like to keep my prayers nice and generic. Don’t you? Here’s why: Generic prayer doesn’t leave me [...]

Just yesterday a stranger entered First Baptist Church of Maryville, Ill., walked down the center aisle in the middle of the 8:15 service, shot and killed Senior Pastor Fred Winters after the two briefly exchanged words.  The gunman was subdued by two church members after drawing a knife and stabbing himself. From the First Baptist [...]

Some decisions and choices don’t require prayer. The answer is simply too clear, too obvious. All factors clearly point in one logical direction. Case closed. No prayer required. Sadly, I’m not making this up. This is often the attitude I bring to the table when making decisions. Can you relate? Now, I’m not talking about [...]

Lent begins tomorrow. Do you participate in this season of fasting? What will you be giving up? Comment below.

Let me begin by saying that the purpose of this post is not to pick apart Rick Warrens Inaugural Prayer. There are plenty of places in the blogosphere where these conversations are being held. I invite you to seek them out and post as many comments as you wish. I would, however, like to focus [...]

12:04 AM January 20, 2009 has quickly come to an end and there is little I can say to capture the significance of today’s events that has not already been said. Today, the pages of tomorrow’s history books were written before my very eyes. Today, I am especially proud to call myself an American. Here [...]

How do you begin each day each? If you are like me, you get out of bed just in time – and not a moment sooner. Oh sure, you planned to wake up at 5:30 and work out, catch Sports Center, have a quiet time, eat breakfast, and arrive early to work, but sometimes it [...]

Am I the only one who finds recorded prayer to be little bit awkward? Imagine that you and five friends are watching a three-year-old video recording of a pastor delivering a message. As the sermon comes to an end, the pastor closes with a prayer. You look around the room and see that three of [...]

On the first Thursday of May each year, millions of Christians gather across the United States for the National Day of Prayer. Tomorrow will be no different, as thousands of prayer events have been planned nation-wide. The National Day of Prayer Task Force, an independent, non-profit organization which organizes (Christian) events on the National Day [...]