We don’t pray to Mary and the various saints because they are not God, and they have no power to answer prayer. It doesn’t matter whether they know what’s happening on Earth; we should not pray to them, any more then we should pray to our friends on Earth because they know what’s happening in our lives.

Christ intercedes for us for the same reason we intercede for each other—we need help, we need God's power to resist temptation and live holy lives.

By becoming an ‘advocate’ you are entering into the vital and important ministry of intercession and solidarity with those who suffer for their faith in Christ.

Based on scriptural evidence, I believe the answer is "yes."

This is a question and answer concerning prayer and angelic warfare portrayed in Randy Alcorn's books Deadline, Dominion and Edge of Eternity.

I want to address two groups. First, the ACLU and those sympathetic to it, and second the Church.

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.

Some of you liked the story and six quotations about prayer from my earlier blog. So here’s six more, followed by a story.

A couple of years ago I had the privilege of speaking at the Desiring God National Conference with John Piper, Jerry Bridges, and John MacArthur. But perhaps the greatest privilege was being with the other speaker, Dr. Helen Roseveare, missionary to the Congo.