The Suburbs of HeavenEM Bounds has said: “Praying is spiritual work; and human nature does not like taxing, spiritual work. Human nature wants to sail to heaven under a favoring breeze, a full, smooth sea. Prayer is humbling work. It abases intellect and pride, crucifies vainglory, and signs our spiritual bankruptcy, and all these…
Most Christians—myself included—feel inadequate about their prayer life. We know that we don’t pray as often as we should, as fervently as we should, or as eloquently as we should. We know how frequently our minds wander when we pray and how many times we have actually fallen asleep in…
In the second part of this series on struggling well, I mentioned five things that we can do to in the midst of our struggles to approach them Christianly: we can reflect, rehearse, resist, repent, and remember. While I certainly believe that these five things can be tremendously helpful, I…
