"I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do...

When we started this podcast, it was all about figuring out how to pray. But what I hope you’ve seen along the way is that, while prayer...

If you’ve been listening this week, you’ll remember that we’ve spent a lot of time talking about the image of God and about how we’re...

It’s an odd thing to say that prayer is reminding God. It’s odd because—well, doesn’t God know all things? How could we remind him of...

In our busy world, it can be hard to find time to pray. Would you believe me if I told you this was true even for ministers?...

Yesterday, we talked about how the heart is bent in on itself, how it’s curved away from God where it’s supposed to be. But we also...

Prayer is about more than us. In fact, it’s primarily about God. We tend to think of prayer as asking for things because our hearts are...

If you’ve ever heard the story of Mary and Martha, you probably heard someone tell you that people (women?) are of two different types....

“Do less and pray more.” That was Paul Miller’s conclusion about his ministry. He’d been working really hard to find the right staff...

Do you make a habit of prayer? Like, do you have a specific time of prayer or do you have a routine of prayer? Like a planned prayer...

Jesus would often get up early by himself to pray, even when he’d been up late the night before ministering to people. I wonder if he...

As my children and I were reading through The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe—that classic children’s book by C.S. Lewis—I was struck...

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I resist praying because it doesn’t seem like real work. What I mean is, at the end of a time of...

If you’ve been following the podcast for a while, you might have noticed that we’ve been talking a lot about what prayer means to you,...

Have you ever played Hide and Seek with little kids? I mean the ones who aren’t quite old enough to get it? So they stick their head...

Have you ever lost your dog? What’s the first thing you do? You go outside and whistle for him to come back. You call him home. Jesus...

One of my preaching professors used to tell me that he’d encountered a lot of people who looked at God like a great vending machine in...

This episode is entitled “Prayer Doesn’t ‘Work.’” That’d be a bit confusing to you if you listened in yesterday because that episode was...

You know, one of the reasons we don’t pray is because we don’t think it will do any good. Let me rephrase that: I think we don’t feel...

Sometimes we can get the idea that we should only be praying about certain things. Maybe you’ve felt this way yourself—like you can only...