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June 2005
Editorial – Prayer
By Calvin Brown. Prayer is more powerful than habits, heredity, natural tendencies, and even the forces that hold the planets in place, since it can suspend the laws of the universe, if such be God's will. No other power on earth does the enemy of souls hate and fear as much as prayer. … Read more
Bringing Heaven Down
By Darrell Johnson. The only thing the first disciples of Jesus are recorded to have asked Jesus to teach them is how to pray. The fifty-seven words He taught them are brilliant in their simplicity and change the way we understand God, ourselves, and the world. … Read more
The Blessings of the Power of Prayer
By Isabel Peters. Having been raised in a praying family, the author chronicles the rise of a large, interdenominational Prayer Fellowship. She shares the Prayer Group Covenant and some other helpful aspects of the Prayer Fellowship's characteristics. … Read more
The Davidson Family
By Emery Cawsey. The classmate of a recent theological graduate reflects on the life and death of a special friend and his family: Kris and Sheryl Davidson, and their daughters Lauren and Katie. … Read more
John Calvin on Prayer
By Victor Shepherd. No one in the history of Christian thought has written on prayer as much as John Calvin. Few have approached him in sensitivity and profundity. Fewer still have understood the social/psychological situation from which he wrote everything: the refugee who knows that life is precarious. … Read more
W. Stanford Reid: An Evangelical Calvinist in the Academy, by A. Donald MacLeod
Reviewed by Ian S. Rennie. Stanford Reid had a very deep love for the Presbyterian Church. He cherished its official theology, only wishing that it was more studied. He valued the system of church government, even when he might be rebuffed by it. He also found signs of life in the denomination. … Read more