- Sat, May 23, 1992
- Culture and Worldview
ACLU Escalates Battle Against Faith
In 1992, my home town, Gresham, Oregon, emerged as the newest battlefield between the historic role of the Christian faith in our society, and the newer vision of the ACLU.
Resources: prayer
- Sat, May 30, 1992
- Christian Life, Culture and Worldview
When Public Prayer Is Made Illegal
On Thursday May 7, 1992, I joined about 500 other citizens and taxpayers to pray on the lawn at City Hall in the city of Gresham, Oregon. It was the national day of prayer, declared so by our president. Organizers had gone through the right hoops, and the mayor of Gresham had granted permission for us to be there. But the gathering began not with a prayer or song of worship, but a statement read by a police lieutenant culminating in, "You are commanded to leave." What a way to start a prayer meeting!
- Sat, Jan 01, 1994
- Culture and Worldview, Prolife
A Prayer 20 Years After Roe v. Wade
This originally appeared in the January-February 1994 issue of Eternal Perspectives, EPM's quarterly newsletter.
Our Father in Heaven, we thank you that you are the Sovereign Lord of the Universe. That no bird falls from the sky without your knowledge. That no man rises to power without your permission. We thank you that the king’s heart is in your hand, and you can turn it however you wish.
We pray for our president elect. First, we pray for his repentance and enlightenment. We pray for an awareness that he will be held accountable for all citizens of this ...
- Thu, Sep 21, 2000
- Culture and Worldview
America’s Right to Pray: Resisting Unjust Judges
It's not that America will fail if prayer is outlawed at football games. It won't. But America most assuredly will fail if the courts continue their unconstitutional usurpation of power.
- Fri, Sep 14, 2001
- Christian Life, Suffering and Evil
How to Pray in the Midst of Crisis
How do you pray in the midst of crisis? More than any other portion of Scripture, Psalms shows us how. Beginning with Psalm 3, and over and over again until Psalm 149, we find the psalmist crying out to the Lord in various dire circumstances.
- Mon, Feb 17, 2003
- Christian Life
Randy’s Foreword to Come Away: How to Have a Personal Prayer Retreat by Shel Arensen
We were made for a person and a place. Jesus is the person. Heaven is the place. We’ll never be satisfied with any person less than Jesus, and no place less than heaven. We won’t be fully content until we’re home with our Beloved. But the closest we can get to contentment—and to heaven—while we’re still here as aliens and strangers on this earth, is when we come away with Jesus and get away from his substitutes.
May He use Come Away to draw us into His presence and empower us in a way that changes the world around us.
- Sat, Dec 01, 2007
- Christian Life, Missions
An Hour With George Müeller, Man of Faith
I've taken the following excerpts from an excellent booklet, An Hour With George Müeller, The Man of Faith to Whom God Gave Millions.
- Sat, Mar 28, 2009
- Christian Life, Christians, Past and Present (By and About)
- Fri, Dec 18, 2009
- Persecuted Church
17 Countries Where Christians are Persecuted
I've edited this based on information from The Bible League, Operation World and other sources. It's intended to help us pray more intelligently for our brothers and sisters.
- Fri, Dec 18, 2009
- Heaven
27 Common Questions About Heaven
All these questions are addressed in Randy Alcorn's book Heaven (Tyndale, 2004). Most of them have clear, though not comprehensive, biblical answers. The others that don't have clear answers can be intelligently speculated upon, based on what Scripture does tell us.
