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Is God in Charge?
11/17/2009

The news seems pretty grim: chaos, war, economic instability, nuclear threat, natural disasters, so much uncertainty, and fewer people believing in God. There are plenty of people delivering the bad news every day. Makes you wonder what God is doing. Has God checked out?

A pillar of Christian theology is that God is all powerful (theologians use the term “omnipotent”). The one who spoke the universe into existence and ...

Prayer and Recitation
11/13/2009

Prayer prayed extemporaneously is like finding a lovely flower, or turning the bend in the road only to discover some scenic beauty. It is prayer that is important to life with Christ. But there is another kind of prayer that we often ignore, or even censure, because we have been taught that Jesus condemns such prayer. That kind of prayer is formal prayer, a prayer of recitation, written, composed, or liturgical prayer.

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