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How to Turn a Toast into a Prayer

Weddings. Retirements. Reunions. Departures. Wakes and funerals. They don’t happen every day, but when they do, they present the opportunity…

How to Start a Prayer Life

You pray. Of course you do. Maybe you said bedtime prayers as a child. Or you might say “grace” before…

How to Quickly Pray for Someone You’ve Just Met

Today’s guest blogger is Steve Sjogren. Some time ago I began a habit of asking people—often people I’ve just met—if I…

How to Pray While Awaiting a Birth

Few people enjoy waiting, and fewer still find it easy to await the arrival of a child into this world—whether…

How to Pray When Your Work Isn’t Working

Having trouble at work? Feel like it’s no longer working for you? Maybe you’re desperate for a change. Maybe you’re…

How to Pray When You’re Tired

These days, with disrupted routines, disturbing news, and daily uncertainty, we may feel the need to pray, perhaps now more…

How to Pray Through Life’s Big Changes

Life is a series of transitions. Some seasons, in fact, seem to be nothing but transitions. And often, as the candy…

How to Pray Through Depression

It took a serious bout with depression to teach me one indispensable prayer secret: the skill of “praying until.” Nearly…

How to Pray More Efficiently

Prayer meetings and “prayer request” times in church or small groups used to frustrate me, until I discovered a prayer…

How to Pray Like a Child

Feel like a failure at prayer? A novice, perhaps? Good. Brother Lawrence, the 17-century author of The Practice of the…

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