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a thousand years of prayer

If you are in the US, today is Memorial Day. You may be starting your day a little slower than usual. You may have time to do a little bit of reading. The other day I looked at the prayer Nehemiah describes in Nehemiah 1. I’ve read it before. This time, I decided to see […]

by Jon Swanson

thinking about prayer while waiting for a post.

I never know how long to pray about things. I’m often not sure exactly how to pray. The other day, Hope and Nancy and I were talking about this question, about what to pray for in a particular health situation. Hope and some of her friends had been discussing it at great length. I laughed. […]

by Jon Swanson

A progression of prayer in a painful week.

Take all of these because I can’t. All of these because I never could. All of these because You can. All of these because You are. That’s what I wrote while I was talking with God the other day. I had made a list of of broken things in the lives of people around me. […]

by Jon Swanson

On setting prayer goals.

I asked our Saturday night group to think about some goals for 2013. I decided to talk with you about that exercise as well. I said, “I know that sometimes some people have a hard time setting goals, especially when it comes to God-related things. But what if we talked about having some prayer goals?” […]

by Jon Swanson

How I get things done. Sometimes.

In a hallway on the other side of the building from my office are two sofas. They are more like love seats. They form the angle of a third of an apple pie, two slices, one for you, one for me. When you sit on these sofas, your back is to a couple windows, your face […]