Archive for November 2020
12.1.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer part 17. Reconsideration.
DEVOTION: To continue yesterdays thought…. “But if one simply rules out the lower kind of prayer, two difficulties follow. In the first place, one has to say that the whole historical tradition of Christian prayer (including the Lords Prayer) has been wrong; for it has always admitted prayers for our daily bread, for the recovery…
Read More11.30.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 16. Don’t ask…
DEVOTION: Question. Why make requests of God if He already knows what we need? Other questions. If He is all-wise doesn’t He already know what is best? And if He is all good, won’t He do it whether we pray or not? “This is the case against prayer which has, in the last hundred years,…
Read More11.29.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 15. The battle.
DEVOTION: When God becomes man, that Man, of all others, is least comforted by God, at His greatest need. There is a mystery here which, even if I had the power, I might not have the courage to explore. Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope…
Read More11.28.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 14. Surrender (again).
DEVOTION: “Prayer is not a machine. It is not magic. It is not advice offered to God. Our act, when we pray, must not, any more than all our other acts, be separated from the continuous act of God Himself, in which alone all finite causes operate.” (pg 12) Then he goes on to say…..…
Read More11.27.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 13. Something out of nothing.
DEVOTION: To continue yesterday’s thought and maybe try to answer the question at the end of the devotion…. “For He seems to do nothing of Himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures. He commands us to do slowly and blunderingly what He could do perfectly and in the twinkling of an eye. He…
Read More11.26.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 12. Involved.
DEVOTION: “God,” said Pascal, “instituted prayer in order to lend to His creatures the dignity of causality.” But not only prayer; whenever we act at all He lends us that dignity. It is not really stranger, nor less strange, that my prayers should affect the course of events than that my other actions should do…
Read More11.25.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 11. Open.
DEVOTION: Here’s the larger portion of the quote from yesterday’s devotion. “Petitionary prayer is, nonetheless, both allowed and commanded to us; “Give us our daily bread.” And no doubt it raises a theoretical problem. Can we believe that God ever really modifies His action in response to the suggestion of men? For infinite wisdom does…
Read MoreWorship Underground Bible Study – 11.24.20
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Read More11.24.20 – Daily Dose of Worship – A study on prayer. Part 10. How to begin?
DEVOTION: “For up until now we have been tackling the whole question in the wrong way and on the wrong level. The very question “Does prayer work?” puts us in the wrong frame of mind from the outset. “Work” as if it were magic or machine, something that functions automatically. Prayer is either a sheer…
Read More11.23.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 9. Willing.
DEVOTION: I heard this quote today. “When we pray, it’s not so much what we say, it’s our willingness to meet with God.” How willing are you to meet with God? How often are you willing? Compelling questions. Questions that need answers for each of us. “Come to me, all you who are weary and…
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