“A saint is someone who—with however many faults, even crimes—leads us by example, almost never by words, to imagine the hardest thing of all: the seamless love of God for all creation, including ourselves.”12 Adoration is the place of prayer where we discover that God’s love is the defining reality of every square inch of creation, including me

The modern father of spiritual discipline, Richard Foster, counsels, “By praying we learn to pray.”

When you see the fruit of fidelity though—an elderly couple still in love—a thought runs through every mind: That’s better than anything I’ve got. I want that. That’s what the disciples saw when Jesus prayed—the fruit of fidelity. And they wanted it. “Teach us the kind of prayer that leads to that.”

Prayer, properly understood and practiced, is the seed from which fruitfulness grows.

God promises peace—a supernatural sort of peace we can’t even logically reason out—in place of crippling anxiety. The means of this exchange is prayer.

The millennial generation, of which I am a part, is the most socially conscious, globally minded, justice-oriented generation in recent memory. We are also the most mentally ill and chronically unhappy. We are a generation of people doing exactly what we want with our lives, channeling our energy freely into chosen pursuits for global good, and yet

Richard Foster writes, “If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this will lead us to prayer. Intercession is a way of loving others . . . Intercessory Prayer is selfless prayer, even self-giving prayer. In the ongoing work of the kingdom of God, nothing is more important than

A new tool comes along like the Jesus film, the Alpha Course, a weekend revival effort, or a church-sponsored short-term mission trip, and that tool spearheads a surge in evangelism. There’s usually a novel method somewhere near the center of the explanation of why evangelism is “working” (for lack of a better term). Moody’s life and ministry is a

When we’ve grown impatient with the waiting, lost our stamina for persistence, what keeps us praying? We must recover an understanding of the way God is at work, not just in the final promise, but in all the acts of persistence along the way.