Tag: prayer
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Creative prayer part 3 – 10 more ideas to help you pray
This is the third in my occasional series with some ideas to inspire your prayer life. • Do a prayer walk treasure hunt. I have created a list of things to spot as you walk around your community and prayer suggestions for each. Download the prayer treasure hunt here.
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Having a retreat day – Practical tips
Over the years, I’ve found that having regular times where I choose to be alone with God has been a brilliant way to nurture my relationship with him, to grow spiritually and to enjoy “life in all its fulness” (John 10: 10). It’s also been particularly helpful at significant crossroads in my life – for…
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Honesty with God
How honest can you be with God? Do you feel like you can tell him everything? Or do you feel the need to hide parts of your life? I sometimes think that our church culture doesn’t help foster real intimacy with God. Often at the start of a church service the leader will say something…
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Spiritual practices and habits
It’s been a really tough couple of years and I realised that I let other things and people take first place in my heart instead of God. It’s been a long and painful process coming back to him fully, but I realised that the only thing that’s going to replace idolatry in my heart is…
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Prayer walks
I admit that I often find it difficult to pray or get stuck in a rut, so I’m always on the look out for creative ideas to mix things up a bit. I’ve blogged before about creative prayer so you might want to check out those ideas: I find that moving my body and being…
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What I learned about prayer from my friend and her lucky crystal
I’ve just read ‘Faitheism’ by Krish Kandiah and found it really helpful and thought-provoking. He seeks to diffuse the ‘us vs them’ polarisation that often characterises interactions between Atheists and Christians and explores ways that we can find common ground and forge more meaningful relationships. In the chapter on suffering he highlights a couple of…
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What physical pain has taught me about spiritual healing
There’s a real analogy between emotional pain and physical pain. If there’s something seriously wrong with you physically there’s pain before you have the operation and if you don’t do anything about it it will get worse and worse and make you sicker and sicker. Then you have the operation and you can’t feel it…
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6 of the best daily prayer apps
I have recently been helped in the discipline of daily prayer by a number of apps, so I wanted to share 6 of the best free ones. The selection represents a number of different Christian faith traditions, so I hope that there is something for everyone. (1) Pray As You Go (Free) iOS app download…
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Picture This Thought – Meal [Food]
We live in a world of fast food, drive throughs, TV dinners, working lunches and meals in a shake. But what if eating is meant to be a much more spiritual experience? In this short reflection, I consider the importance of mealtimes in the early church, in Jewish history and in our own lives as…
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PrayerMate Send
For a few months now, I’ve been using PrayerMate Send which is a brilliant way to help people know what to pray for in my ministry. It’s ideal for anyone in Christian ministry, churches, youth groups, social action projects, charities and anyone that wants to encourage others to pray for their work. PrayerMate is a…
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