Sermon Prayer

Over the course of 14 novels, millions have fallen in love with the faith, encouragement, and wisdom that are at the very heart of Jan Karon's Mitford series. Now, for the first time, listeners will have the chance to walk with Father Tim through a collection of prayers, sermons, and inspirational passages that incorporates material from each of the novels. In addition, fans will get to hear directly from author Jan Karon, in a brand-new essay about her own personal journey in faith and the ways that the Mitford novels have impacted her.

The Apostle James tells us that the prophet Elijah was a man ''subject to like passions as we are''. I am thankful that those men and women who were so mighty in prayer were just like ourselves. We are apt to think that those prophets and mighty men and women of old times were different from us. To be sure they lived in a much darker age, but they were of like passions with ourselves.

As Dr. King prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known homilies. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in July 1962. Having been arrested for holding a prayer vigil outside Albany City Hall, King and Ralph Abernathy shared a jail cell for 15 days that was, according to King, ''dirty, filthy, and ill-equipped'' and "the worse I have ever seen." While behind bars, he spent uninterrupted time preparing the drafts for classic sermons....

Pastor Jim Cymbala believes that Jesus wants to renew his people - to call us back from spiritual dead ends, apathy, and lukewarm religion. In this compelling audio presentation, Cymbala tells the story of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, a struggling congretation of 20 - until they began to pray, and God began to move, and street-hardened lives by the hundreds were transformed by Christ's love.

One of the only things Jesus' disciples asked Him to teach them was to pray. The result is what we've come to call the Lord's Prayer, which could better be called the Disciples' Prayer, since Jesus gave it specifically to them. In this series, Pastor Skip Heitzig takes a deeper look at this often-recited - and often-overlooked - prayer to find applications for our own prayer lives.

Hoffnung und Freude sollten ständige Reisebegleiter eines Christen sein. Doch wenn es auf der Lebensstraße eng, dunkel und steil wird, bleiben beide Tugenden schnell auf der Strecke. Dieses Hörbuch macht Mut, indem es Bibelworte erklärt und auf den Lebensalltag anwendet. Wo Gottes Wort seine machtvolle Wirkung entfaltet, weichen Angst und Sorge - Hoffnungsfreude bricht sich Bahn. Christen bekommen durch dieses Hörbuch vielfältige Impulse, um den Weg des Glaubens weiterzugehen - mutig, hoffnungsvoll und freudig.

San Cipriano nos revela el poder oculto del Padre Nuestro, la oración al Señor que Jesús enseño a sus discípulos y que es la más poderosa y efectiva de las oraciones para hacer peticiones y obtener el favor de Dios.

Mark Buchanan evaluates the four best places to live - not according to the United Nations, Money, or Forbes - but according to God and Scripture. Where do we find the greatest joy, peace, and wisdom? Where can we go to experience the deepest sense of belonging? Is there a place that abounds with adventure where we can also feel safe, refreshed, and joyful? With compelling insight, Buchanan explores what God has revealed in His Word about where we become most alive, become most fully ourselves, and can dwell most closely with Him.

This I have learned about prayer: If, as you are going along, you hear someone preach about it or pick up a book and read about it; the Holy Ghost will stir something up within you. I encourage you to study these six steps and incorporate them into your prayer-life. Let us fulfill the commission to: "Pray without ceasing." (1 Thessalonians 5:17)