What he worships is not the only thing that separates an idolater from a true worshiper.
I really think that we can participate in “Christian worship” in an idolatrous way. In prayer, in praise, the character of the God we turn toward alters the character of our worship. If that God is one shorn of all [...]

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In prayer I can intercede for my friends, ministers, sinners, the church, the kingdom to come, with greatest freedom, ardent hopes, as a son to his father, as a lover to the beloved.
I don’t have much time this morning–because I’m attending for the first time a weekly Monday morning prayer meeting in the Campus Center–but [...]

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Among the most beautiful books on prayer, along with John Bunyan’s A Discourse Touching on Prayer and that most beautiful of Puritan collections The Valley of Vision, I have recently discovered Herman Witsius’s The Lord’s Prayer. In this book, besides providing one of the best expositions and applications of our Lord’s prayer, he offers some [...]

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