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Confidence in prayer

Prayer is our greatest privilege as Christians and yet it’s also one of our chief struggles. There are no doubt many reasons for this, but the one I want to concentrate on here is that we [...]

Christians across Wales and further afield were shocked to hear of the sudden home-call of Colin Davies on 13 October 2010. He had appeared one who would continue undiminished for years to come, but God had [...]

A beautiful thing to me

The words of the title are taken from Mark 14:6 which record Jesus’ assessment of the act of devotion by the woman who poured the jar of expensive perfume over Him. Some criticised the act as [...]

Praying with children

I remember a pastor, when giving his testimony, explaining that in his late teens he had an experience of being overwhelmed by a sense of sin. He had no Christian background and didn’t know what to [...]

Watch and pray

In gold letters on the clock face of the parish church at Madron, near Penzance, are the words: ‘Watch and pray – time hastes away’. Previous generations who looked to the church tower for the time [...]

Then all the people said ‘Amen’

It’s a most dispiriting feeling. You’ve come to the end of the service, having preached your heart out, and you’re pronouncing the benediction. As you near a conclusion, the pitch, volume and tempo of your voice [...]

The ‘powerhouse’ of the church

It is often said, and rightly so, that the prayer meeting is the ‘powerhouse’ or the ‘heartbeat’ of the church. To know the true state of a local church, therefore, we look not at the Sunday [...]

Praying for the preaching

Everyone agrees that we must pray for preachers, but what should we ask for? Some will instantly reply, ‘for unction’ but nowhere in Scripture are we told to do this. In the Old Testament unction (or [...]

A prayer for today

The following article was written while the writer was on holiday in New England. Spiritually the place is far different from the 1740-50s when Edwards and others knew such remarkable evidences of the mercy of God [...]

An encouragement to pray

Prayer. That is the theme in this issue of the magazine. The word ‘prayer’ has many personal associations for each of us, but I would like to share with you some of the associations that I [...]