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Some quotes from Harry Emerson Fosdick’s ‘The Three Meanings: Prayer, Faith & Service’ – Chapter 1, on the ‘naturalness’ of prayer:
On prayer and Modernity… Modern scepticism has done all that it could to make prayer unreasonable. It has viewed the world as a machine, regular as an automaton, uncontrollable as sunrise. It has made whatever . . . → Read More: modern prayer Kim Fabricus recently offered twelve ripostes for ‘militant atheists’, one of which was about prayer. —Prayer plainly doesn’t work. —Thank God!1 On a spectrum of immature to mature, understandings of Christian prayer will range from the anthropocentric and mechanistic2 notion that prayer is about us invoking God to do something we want for our world, to the more theocentric and . . . → Read More: praying with jesus Diane and I enjoyed (again) ‘Sophie Scholl: The Final Days’ the other night. She was a courageous woman. Very inspiring. I also particularly appreciated her prayers. I don’t know as of yet if they are hers exactly or reconstructions of the writers, but here they are as in the film: . . . → Read More: sophie scholl The other day, a friend of mine at Carey college was sharing with me and a few others how grieved he’d been lately (due to various tragic things happening to people close to him). He mentioned lying in bed and trying to pray, not knowing what to say, and eventually just offering an extended, rumbling, inward groan to God… Now, . . . → Read More: the groaning language of prayer If only people in general –and Christians in particular– could grasp just a few key things that makes Jesus who He is… then I’m convinced not only that Christianity would have a better reputation, but –even further– those who aren’t Christians might be far less against the growth of Christianity… People are scared about the growth of Christianity because they . . . → Read More: good news for all the people  9 comments - (Comments are closed)  bible, christianity, theology  belief, christianity, church, conflict, discernment, discipleship, faith, god, gospel, heaven, interpretation, Israel, jesus, Jewish, kingdom of god, politics, prayer, religion, spirituality, suffering, theology “Hither Thee unto my hearkening toward Thee, Oh Heavenly Blessed One of Old. Thou hads’t bountifully lavished Thy unmerited favour upon me!” “Yo God! What’s up mate? You are so cool! You totally rule, Dude, and that is just sweet like candy Bro!” I used to think of these examples as the extremes of how a person might approach God . . . → Read More: trust God – trust me… |
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