A reflection on prayer:
"Prayer... accomplishes things we couldn't do by our own effort, organization or skill. Prayer remains mysterious at one level. Nobody quite knows 'how it works', and this not knowing seems to be part of the point. But it remains a deeply practical thing to do. One of the great Christian leaders of the twentieth century, Archbishop William Temple, declared that whatever else one might say about whether prayer worked, he had noticed that when he prayed, 'coincidences' happened; and when he stopped praying, the 'coincidences' stopped happening... Of course [he] didn't believe that the things which happened in apparent answer to prayer really were coincidences. This was how God worked.... the prayers even of young and inexperienced Christians are every bit as powerful and valid in God's presence as those of a seasoned apostle." --N.T. Wright
This week's requests:
- Pray for all those who teach our children in Children's Church, nursery, and spiritual formation classes.
- Pray for the families of Redeemer. That the love of Christ would dwell in our homes. That our homes would be places where we "live with one another in an understanding manner" and where we follow the apostle Paul's words of exhortation where he says, "be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other just as God also in Christ Jesus has forgiven you."
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