Tag: Prayer
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Call the Evildoer to Account for His Wickedness
An alternative to Franklin Graham’s Special Day of Prayer.
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Litany for the 2016 Election… and today.
A president has been elected for whom money is god, for whom celebrity is currency, and for whom laws are manipulated for personal gain.
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The View From Here
After the release of the video documenting Laquan McDonald’s murder by a Chicago police officer, some clergy friends and I worked to pull together a prayer vigil at police headquarters. It was amazing to see hundreds of faith leaders and community members come out on a rainy night to pray for justice. The top photo…
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“…in trouble most of the time.”
The language of prayer occurs primarily at one level, the personal, and for one purpose, salvation. The human condition teeters on the edge of disaster. Human beings are in trouble most of the time. Those who don’t know they are in trouble are in the worst trouble. Prayer is the language of the people who…
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Thanking God For The Prayers Of My Friends
I’m in the middle of a week of church planting related travel that has me on both coasts. Because I was already in Portland, it was possible to rearrange some flights in order to participate in my great aunt’s funeral. Aunt Corrine passed away last week and, in God’s providence, I got to be in…
David W. Swanson 