So, today is the National Day of Prayer in the U.S. Are you doing anything to mark the day? The NDP Task Force site has a page where you can locate NDP events near you if you want to get involved in a public service of some sort. (Note that the NDP Task Force site, [...]

Where have you found God today, and where do you need to find Him? Other6.com is a rather nifty website where you can report “God moments” and ask for prayer for particular needs you have today. You can comment on other people’s reports/requests, too.
The concept behind the site is to highlight the presence of God [...]

Nihil Fit has a good post that outlines the different ways that God talks to people today. It’s a well-thought-out list. He closes with some interesting thoughts about the question “Does God speak to people today like he did in Bible times?”
I think the answer has to be “yes,” but with one caveat. Let’s distinguish [...]

You may cringe or roll your eyes at the latest antics from celebrities like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, or maybe you just try to tune them out—but how often do you pray for Hollywood actors and celebrities? A group called the Hollywood Prayer Network coordinates thousands of people who pray for celebrities: Members of [...]

Where do your thoughts go when I mention names like Lindsey Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Britney Spears?

Maybe apathy? Maybe disgust? Maybe envy? Where should the attitude of our hearts be?

I don’t want to encourage any comments that judge these people and their actions, but do you have the same compassion and grace for them that [...]

While chuckling at this post parodying the prayer styles of various branches of Christianity, I’m reminded of two amusing-but-annoying little prayer habits you encounter all the time in evangelical circles. Raise your hand if you’ve run into one of these:
The word “just” inserted about five times per sentence, as in “Dear God, we just pray [...]

Over at the Vanguard Church blog, Bob Robinson looks at exact wording of the Lord’s Prayer and wonders whether Christians have lost some of the communal spirit of prayer. He challenges us to see how the emphasis shifts when we make an effort to use the word “we” (plural) instead of “I” (singular) in our [...]

Thanks to “jnthn” for directing our thoughts to Anne Graham Lotz’s sobering message as she was interviewed by Jane Clayson on the September 13, 2001, Early Show:
Jane Clayson: I’ve heard people say, those who are religious, those who are not, if God is good, how could God let this happen? To that, [...]

I do hope this is not a) a Freudian slip or b) the true beliefs of the Presidential Prayer Team, but in a recent email:
The Presidential Prayer Team: is a nationwide, non-partisan, non-profit prayer team dedicated to following the Scriptural mandate in I Timothy 2:1-2 to pray for America’s President and National Leaders. We intercede [...]

The media is crucifying the director of The Passion of the Christ for his drunk-driving arrest and alleged obscene and “anti-Semitic” tirade. This is a very different image of Mel Gibson who, during interviews concerning the film, testified to his new found faith in Christ. “I realized I needed something more if I [...]