August 14, 2018

Imagine if someone asks you to paint a portrait of a sinner. Where would you turn for inspiration: The front page? The evening news? The history books? Any of these sources would provide an abundance of sinful specimens to observe: murderous dictators, hate-filled racists, violent predators.  You might draw upon on words like “wretched” or […]

In his recent book Praying the Bible, Don Whitney—a widely recognized scholar of Christian spiritual disciplines—writes: “It must be possible for every Christian…to have a meaningful, satisfying prayer life.” Would you agree? Or does that claim surprise you? Have you perhaps experienced so much defeat, so many times, in trying to build a healthy prayer