Father, please teach us how to pray now, and throughout our lives. Please change us. We pray for Zimbabwe. Please provide a peaceful and just outcome to the situation, providing safety, forgiveness and reconciliation between those who are divided, and a good and stable government. Lord, we know that Mugabe’s challenge that only you will …
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Prayer of repentance as a church, individuals and a country
Lord, please help us to pray now, and teach us how to pray. Lord, we think you may be telling us as a church that we need to repent: to turn away from wrong things we are doing. Some of us here may have a very clear idea of things we personally are doing wrong …
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Prayer for Sri Lanka, love between Christians and other faiths, the church playgroup and students.
Lord, please help us to pray now, and teach us how to pray. We thank you for the way our playgroup spreads the good news of your love to so many people who don’t get to hear it in other places. We thank you so much for answering our prayers as a church to provide …
Prayer for Zimbabwe, DRC, divorced and separated people, healing, people who aren’t Christians
Lord, we ask you to help us pray now, and to be teaching us how to pray through our whole lives. We ask that you take our ambition to become a house of prayer and make it a reality: inspire us and encourage us in our prayer, and please show us now where you want …
Prayer for Congo
God, where are you in Congo? Were you there in Luvungi when 242 people were raped last month? Were you there in Uvira when 21 children were raped? Were you crying with them? God, please help them. We beg you to step in. Have we not prayed enough? Don’t we have enough faith? Were we …
My anti-Tithe
Scripture says no one was in need; nobody did without.
Forcing things and handing over power
My relationship with God has been sinking for a while now. Nothing dramatic – just more of my usual dread of prayer, and more of a dead feeling when I do try to pray, and less relief of the feeling that there is nothing there. I’ve been somewhat at a loss as to what to …
It’s ok to have children without getting married now, isn’t it?
The title of this post is what someone said to me today, as a pointed accusation that I am secretly intolerant. I changed the subject and felt hurt that they wanted to do this, and now I feel guilty I didn’t respond properly, so I’m going to try and make myself feel better by writing …
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Why do I believe in God?
Because it seems true. Why don’t you believe in God? Because it seems untrue. Where do we go from here?
Time
[Another post from ~] My wrestle with God is about how I find it difficult to do the one thing he asks me to do; Spend time with Him. There are no doubt many reasons for my neglect of God but I just don’t know where one is expected to find the time. And I …