Praying is a central and vital part of religion. But how do you teach and explain prayer to children? Cheri Fuller, writing on churchleaders.com, says one way of explaining prayer to small children is ...

In the Christian faith, prayer is considered a form of communication with God. Christians use prayer during Bible study and in worship service. Christians are also encouraged to pray at home each day.

The Book of Psalms can teach people how to pray and is the “prayer book ‘par excellence,’” Pope Benedict XVI said in his June 22 audience with pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square. “These inspired songs ...

“I want to start a new series of catechesis on a subject that is very dear to us all: the topic of prayer,” he told pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square May 6. Over the past two years Pope Benedict has been ...

How a new pastor helped his congregation re-approach the throne of grace. The pastor who preceded me at Arcade served the church 40 years. Bringing change to this congregation would be either a ...

"Lord, Teach us to pray." Did the disciple who made that request have any clue about the intimacy of asking someone how he prays? Our prayer exposes the heart of our relationship with God: who we ...

“Pray a half-hour each day,” St. Francis de Sales recommended. “And on busy days, pray an hour.” Saintly advice, indeed. No mention, though, of how to pray. Teaching seminarians just that is the goal ...

Lora A. Copley is an ordained Christian Reformed Church (CRC) minister. She teaches in a pastoral leadership program on the Navajo Nation and at Rehoboth Christian High School in New Mexico and is a ...

The pastor who preceded me at Arcade served the church 40 years. Bringing change to this congregation would be either a supernatural work of God or professional suicide. My first sermon at Arcade ...

‘For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them’ PRAYER for others is at once an art and an intuition, and dependent, as both these are, upon imagination for ...

The Gospel reading for October 5, 2011, Wednesday of the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, is Luke’s version of the Lord’s Prayer in 11:1-4. The request they make of Jesus in this short passage ...