Prayer

JACKSON, Tenn. (BP) – In an instant, a casual father-son outing became a desperate fight for survival.

We've all been there. We want to pray but the words won't come. Maybe we don't what to say. Perhaps the burden is heavy it's hard to articulate. Chuck Lawless shares 10 tips to help you in these moments.

When Charles Spurgeon was asked if he could reconcile the sovereignty of God and human responsibility, he said, “I wouldn’t try, I never reconcile friends.”

WASHINGTON (BP) – Against a stained glass backdrop of a cross, the U.S. flag and the nation’s Founding Fathers, Southern Baptist pastors joined others Sunday (May 17) at Rededicate 250 in calling the nation to repentance, while U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected in prayer what he called a “sinister ideology” in the land.

WASHINGTON (BP) – Southern Baptist Convention President Clint Pressley is urging pastors to lead their congregations in prayer for the nation May 17 in concert with a religious outreach in Washington celebrating the semiquincentennial.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (BP) – Southern Baptists are among many who will pray in churches, businesses and the public square May 7 on the 75th anniversary of the National Day of Prayer (NDP), months ahead of the nation’s semiquincentennial.

ASHEBORO, N.C. (BP) – As Reagan P. Wilbanks and his grandfather Douglas Small help mobilize 1 million Christians praying for the salvation of a million souls by Pentecost Sunday, Wilbanks shares his earliest recollections of his grandfather’s prayers.

The most profound thoughts on the Christian life are often the simplest.

With the present war involving Iran, the United States and surrounding countries, a closer look at the history of Christianity in Iran may help place these events in context and guide believers in how to pray for Christians living there.

People marked by prayer understand that hopelessness can be avoided. They live with the realization that God can always be found, and as long as He is present, there is hope.