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What is Prayer? They say God can use anything.  Well, He used graduate school to teach me how to pray.  Of course I had prayed before – a quick, hurried grace before a meal; a prayer before going to bed; a prayer for good weather or for the boy at school to pay me attention. …

Silence… I miss the silence… I once had a married friend lament that she didn’t have as much time to have worship since she had gotten married.  As a single woman, her time was her own.  Now that she was married, it belonged to her and someone else. I didn’t take her comment as a…

I once had an atheist friend who was as smart as a whip. Having completed a Masters degree at a prestigious university, he could easily go toe-to-toe with just about anyone in cleverly giving proof of God’s non-existence. From an intellectual point of view, I knew I was no match for him. In fact, we…

What is prayer? Have you ever come before God wondering what you should pray? Feeling devoid of emotion and strength? Feeling as useless as a glove with no hand to fill it? You wonder if you should beg and plead with God for the object of your prayer, or if you should stand quietly in…

Have you ever wondered, how does God answer prayers?  Well the best way I can think of the answer is through the idea of winning and losing Have you ever been runner up or felt like second best? There are so many motivational quotes that say “Nobody remembers who finished second, except the guy who…