Prayer

Healing and Worship

The season of Lent is a good time to be intentional about incorporating prayers for healing into worship and to offer a special service of prayers for healing and restoration.

March 10, 2011 | 2 min read

Holy Week Prayer Walk

This prayer walk guide was produced through an ecumenical collaboration, with support through a Worship Grant, and is used here by permission.

February 24, 2011 | 1 min read

The Role of Prayer in Public Worship

The prayers in a worship service constitute a very sacred time in which the corporate voice of God's people is lifted heavenward. Such efforts should never be done unthinkingly, and such prayers should never be written carelessly. Indeed, in some ways, corporate prayers require more thought than personal prayers because they must address the needs and concerns of many. Let there be careful forethought to the prayers we offer, regardless of whether we offer them extemporaneously or through written form.

October 26, 2010 | 10 min read
Praying the Lord's Prayer During Advent

The Lord's Prayer is a prayer for all seasons. But it comes to us with particular pastoral urgency during Advent and Christmas.

October 22, 2010 | 2 min read

Confident Prayer (Philippians 1)

The relationship between Paul and the Philippian Christians is a model for all congregations. Paul and the Christians in Philippi recognized the deep work of God in each other, prayed passionately for each other, and fervently desired to see God-glorifying fruitfulness in each other.

October 19, 2010 | 9 min read