Christian Prayer and Fasting

As a Christian I attended a private Ivy League - type school, where the only real option for fellowship was a charismatic prayer group. Many times in that group I had a very strong sense of God’s presence - a sense that has come and gone in the years since.
I didn’t grow up with the […]

As a forty-nine-year-old man stumbling through his midlife passage, I have been dealing with a divorce and trying to find closure in my father’s death, among other challenges. It is because of these experiences, and what I have learned about myself, that I realize the importance of leading a more spiritual life. Trying to live […]

I’ve been working around street people, mostly homeless, for twenty-five years now. I help run a coffeehouse where they can drop in, and then on Sunday we hold a small urban church service upstairs. We never know what will happen there. Some of the people smell bad, disturbed people pray too long, and visitors wander […]

How well I remember my first real prayer. A youth leader was explaining to my friend Udo how to become a Christian. “Let’s kneel down right now,” he said. “What about you, Reiner? Do you want to become a Christian too?” Without thinking I said yes, and prayed as he instructed us. It was an […]

I feel the need to apologize to any regular visitors of this site. Particularly for the past week or so, but also for the general posts that I’ve been making for the past two months.
There is certainly nothing wrong about the posts of the last two months, as they are almost all scriptural in nature […]