School prayer

against student rights. Asking students to stand for the Pledge should be encouraged in schools, but they should not force it upon students. Many schools have gone…

When God created the world, He created it without sin. However, the prefect beauty of the world was soon corrupted by sin. In response to this, God reacted with grace and mercy, and invited us into relationship with Him. In order to maintain relationship with Him, Christians exercise spiritual discipline. These disciplines, inward, outward, and corporate, reflect our desire to commune with God and demonstrate our need for Him as our savior. In his book Celebration of Discipline, Richard Foster…

spiritual formation and the implementation of prayer and faith? In order to understand the importance of pastoral counseling, one might need to know what elements are to be included. There are several types of counseling and psychological methods and remedies concerning various issues and conflicts. However, one might conclude to understand that pastoral counseling serves in an arena all by itself. When it comes to pastoral counseling, faith, prayer, and spiritual formation all play very…

for God and seen only by God. At the commencement of Bible College I understood fasting to be a practice that people in the church did in order to get God to hear their prayers and move on their behalf and answer the prayers that they had placed before Him during the time of fasting. It was like a way to get your prayers answered in an accelerated way. Mother Teresa would be a person in history who I class as someone who significantly contributed to the discipline of fasting. If…

that I see a Christian Counselor. What stands out the most from my sessions, is the way that prayer seemed to be forced on me during each session. It was like the counselor would not proceed with the session if I did not repent or pray for something and I was made to pray out loud so they would know that I was actually praying. I know that it is important, especially after reading this book, to have prayer and Scripture in sessions, however, the way it was presented made me feel even less of…

“Many of us have a vague idea that there should be something different about our leadership as Christians- particularly if we are leading a church or organization with a spiritual purpose- but that difference usually gets reduced to a perfunctory prayer at the beginning of a meeting,…

I am going to select models of spirituality that bring me together with other people. So spiritual activities such as worship, fellowship groups, prayer groups, bible-study groups, and spiritual-formation groups would be the types of scenes where I would spiritually thrive (59). Learning and testing out this information has greatly enhanced my spiritual life already. I do thoroughly enjoy the company…

I learned was the Holy Spirit prayer. The Holy Spirit prayer is a pray that we said in the beginning of each class. As a Pentecostal I was taught that repeating a prayer was less effective than praying to God directly the ability to pray through the bible. I learned that this prayer means a lot. The Holy Spirit prayer ask the Holy Spirit to joins us in the class. This prayer gives us a chance to pray with the Holy Spirit as our instructor. I enjoyed the opening prayer, because it showed the…

There are moments in the life of a Christian that are specially guarded in the deepest of the heart. Moments that mark a before and an after, moments that are extremely touched with the hand of God. Sometimes people go through experiences that makes them wonder if God is trying to talk to them, or if they are mistakenly assuming that something is from God and in reality is caused by human emotions. Truth is that God wants to communicate with us at all times, he wants to talk to us, even through…

benefit, for example, while waiting to hear of Jay’s fate, Hannah displays a genuine deference towards the sacred powers at play. During this instance, Hannah finds herself conflicted on Mary’s prayer at that particular moment, noting that “for the first time in her life [Hannah] suspected how mistakenly prayer can be used” (121). Hannah’s actions reflect an independence from overwhelming spiritual guidance while remaining considerate of her servitude to the Lord. Hannah serves as one of Agee’s…