To pray for Israel and the Middle East is to step into a messy field of hostility going back eons—not just to the formation of the Jewish state in 1948 following the Holocaust. No, that was not the beginning. We have to go all…
Based on Isaiah 65:17–25; Revelation 21:1–6 When I meditate on these passages, a prayer wells up: O Lord God of Heaven and Earth, we see the world around us writhing in pain at the same time that babies are born, bringing the delight of…
Prayer for the crisis in Ukraine and in the world: Holy God, our Father who loves us like a mother, Jesus said that not even a sparrow falls without your awareness. You are keenly in tune with all our joys and all our sufferings.…
A Pattern for the World, Now and Post-Pandemic I want to give a shout-out for the Ten Commandments! I have come to love those simple expressions of universal Law given to the world through Moses’ encounter with the God of Israel. When I imagine…
How do we pray for the world? It is such a wide, wild, wonderful and sorrowful place. There are so many needs amidst all the blessings that it is hard to know where to start. Sometimes, especially in this time of financial loss due…
Now that we are in this global health crisis, it occurs to me that I have a unique opportunity to engage in Prayers for the World with the people who will visit my website who also are longing to pray for the world as…
There are plenty of Old Testament and New Testament passages to support that view, for sure. However, there is another view that Jesus set forth for us to embrace. What Jesus revealed is that God loves the world and all of us in it,…
Lord God of All, revealed so clearly in the life and love of Jesus, we are like his early disciples in our tendency to jump to conclusions and even panic. Like they reacted in the furious storm on the boat with Jesus, we fear…
Prayer Focus: To live out the Image of God in our lives, for the good of the world. What will it take, Lord? The world is in such dire need of awakening and re-direction. So much has already been done throughout biblical and ecclesiastical…
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