At the Intersection of Theology, Nature, and the Arts
Father in Heaven! Hold not our sins up against us but hold us up against our sins so that the thought of You when it wakens in our soul, and each time it wakens, should not remind us of what we have committed but of what You did forgive, not of how we went astray …
From Douglas Steere’s book, Prayer and Worship, comes this excerpt on intercessory prayer: When we hold up the life of another before God, when we expose it to God’s love, when we pray for its release from drowsiness, for the quickening of its inner health, for the power to throw off a destructive habit, for …
Continue reading "Holding Up the Life of Another Before God"
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626) is cherished for his prayers that have been preserved for us from his own private devotions. Here is a selection that we might use this week as a call from our own hearts. I believe in you, O God, Father, Word, Spirit—one God. I believe that by your Fatherly love all things …
Continue reading "Lancelot Andrewes: Prayers that Lift the Mind Up to God"
As many of us are chilled just now by a "deep freeze," I thought our cold folks--as well as those in warmer climes--might wish to sit a bit in the "green lap of nature": We should be better Christians if we were more alone; we should do more if we attempted less, and spent more time …
DFG Hailson 