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Continue reading →: Just Do It! Oh, really? (5 of 6)
Dialogue with the Disillusioned: Why Keep Praying. Article 5. (Climbing in Finnisterre, Spain) The really sad thing here is that these “wiser, deeper, more thoughtful Christians” [to whom you refer in your online response to Thinkingwomanmillstone] still believe that the supreme being of all reality is sitting around giving them…
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Continue reading →: God’s Help: Fact or Fiction? (4 of 6)
Dialogue with the Disillusioned: Why Keep Praying—Week 4 The thing is religion sellers get you coming and going. If you pray for God to help you in a crisis and the crisis goes away…all praise to God. If you pray for help and the crisis doesn’t go away He has…
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Continue reading →: Is Prayer Worthwhile? (3 of 6)
Dialogue with the Disillusioned: Why Keep Praying—Week 3 What evidence is there for the efficacy of prayer? This is an old, well worn question but if you believe that God intervenes and saves people with a terminal disease or illness because of prayer, why does he not re-grow the limbs…
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Continue reading →: Where is God in Unanswered Prayer? (2 of 6)
Dialogue with the Disillusioned: Why Keep Praying—Week 2 I tried prayer. At one point in time, I tried prayer a lot, a whole lot, not one circumstance changed for me in life. Not one thing changed that did not require my active effort to make a change. One minister told…
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Continue reading →: What if God Let You Down? (1 of 6)
Dialogue with the Disillusioned: Why Keep Praying—Week 1 I volunteered to read to terminally ill children at a cancer unit once, and found that many of them were bound up at first in the hope that God would heal them. He never did. I wept copious tears each time one…
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Continue reading →: Why Keep Praying?
Why do you keep praying when prayers aren’t answered? Why do you keep trusting in God when your suffering does not fit with your notion of a good, loving, and caring God? These questions, and others like them, are inspired by the response I received to my June 4th article…
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Continue reading →: Seeking God for Real (7 of 7)
This series is about knowing God, the creator, more deeply and being able to experience God more personally in your daily life. To what extent can you honestly say that you are “seeking” God? I’m talking about going beyond what we’ve been discussing over the past few weeks. Seeking God…
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Continue reading →: Ask for What God Most Wants for You (6 of 7)
This series is about knowing God, the creator, more deeply and being able to experience God more personally in your daily life. What do you ask God for when you pray? Most of us routinely ask God for help in one way or another—a very biblical, natural, and helpful practice.…
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Continue reading →: Drawing on the Past to Draw Near in the Present (5 of 7)
This series is about knowing God, the creator, more deeply and being able to experience God more personally in your daily life. In response to last week’s article, “Why we think God might love us,” one reader wrote, “I do not just want to know about God, I want to…
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Continue reading →: Why We Think God Might Love Us (4 of 7)
The series is about knowing God, the creator, more deeply and being able to experience God more personally in your daily life. What are you doing to know God and God’s love for you better? Answering this question is critical for the person who is seeking to know God’s will,…
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