prayer
Joshua P. Steele (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuapsteele.com
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- declared “Prayer” via Article tag Source page (opens on the publisher’s site)
- declared “Prayer” via Article tag Source page (opens on the publisher’s site)
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Our 4-year-old's spontaneous dinner prayers evolved from routine to creative, including 'help us to be nice to people.'
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Traditional prayers for the sick from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, interceding for comfort and healing.
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Biblical passages from 1 Peter, Isaiah, and elsewhere for corporate prayer and fasting during times of church crisis.
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A half-baked opinion: why using the sign of the cross (+) in clergy signatures, outside the context of a blessing or prayer, can come across as pretentious.
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A BCP prayer for trust amid anxiety, asking God to lift burdens and grant peace to troubled hearts.
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Months of prayer for breakthrough or clarity to quit—my struggle to make progress on the Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Bible dissertation.
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A collect prayer for Juneteenth 2020, remembering slavery's abolition while lamenting ongoing racism and praying for repentance and healing.
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Twelve occasional prayers from the 2019 Book of Common Prayer for times of trouble, bereavement, anxiety, and spiritual struggle.
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Reflections on the eve of priestly ordination, transitioning from deacon to priest in service of Christ's Church.
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A Book of Common Prayer petition for God's grace, protection, and blessing upon relatives and friends in daily life.
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A sermon on John 17:20-26, on Jesus' prayer for the unity of his people and what it means when we cannot get along.
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An essay on the Lord's Prayer, focusing on the timing of the Kingdom of God's arrival and who brings it about.
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A corporate prayer of confession based on the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount, attributed to Bob Kauflin.
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Five ways the ancient practice of Morning and Evening Prayer can shape your spiritual growth and help you follow Jesus daily.
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A prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas to pray before you read, write, study, or take a test, with a bit of its history at Beeson Divinity School.
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A homily on Mark 8:11-21 about sign-seeking, control, faith, and learning to receive the bread God has already given.
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A Morning Prayer homily on Mark 1:29-45—Jesus heals Peter's mother-in-law, withdraws to pray, and cleanses a leper.
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A morning prayer homily on James 2:1-13 about partiality, mercy, and holding faith in the Lord of glory.
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Book of Common Prayer resources for cultivating gratitude, including grace at meals, the General Thanksgiving, and a thanksgiving litany.
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Rest in peace, grandmother: remembering her departure with the BCP's prayer for Christian souls leaving this world.
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The traditional wedding vows from the Book of Common Prayer, plus the personal vows my wife and I wrote—loosely based on them—for our 2012 wedding.
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An outline of the Christian faith in traditional question-and-answer form, drawing on the 1979 Episcopal and 1662 Church of England Books of Common Prayer.
