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Prayer Room at Symposium 2011

Posted by CICW

We are grateful to the Reformed Spirituality Network for hosting this Prayer Room at Symposium 2011.

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Prayer on Father’s Day

Posted by Nathan Bierma

This Father’s Day, we are reminded that you reveal yourself to us in your Word
as Abba, Father.
You are not just our ruler, but our parent.
Not just our creator, but our nurturer.

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Prayer of Lament on Mother's Day

Posted by cicw

From the Open Sourcebook (more about this site): Lord, on this Mother’s Daywe lift up the aching heartsof all thosewho long to be mothers, but mourn the absence of new life within themwho have conceived, but suffered loss through miscarriage or abortionwho have given birth, but endured the tragedy of burying a child. Their grief [...]

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Prayer for Good Friday: "For us…"

Posted by cicw

From the Open Sourcebook: (about this website) Lord Jesus,wounded God. For us you turned yourself in.For us you felt the whip on your back.For us you kept silent as false accusations swirled.For us you marched to the place of death.For us you were nailed to a cross.For us you breathed your last. All for us, [...]

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Tweets of Common Prayer: An Ancient Practice for a New Technology

Posted by cicw

My post today at ThinkChristian.net: I was a Twitter skeptic before I was a Twitter convert. Why, exactly, do I need a more efficient method of delivery for the mundanities of other people’s lives? I only got hooked on Twitter – which, for the uninitiated, is basically a mini-blog – through some of its other [...]

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Prayer Room at Symposium

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Alban Weekly on prayer in board meetings

Posted by cicw

Here‘s an excellent article from Alban Weekly pointing out that prayer should be a vital practice in gatherings of church leaders—rather than just a parliamentary procedure. It’s adapted from the book Transforming Church Boards into Communities of Spiritual Leaders. I often hear the term book-end prayers used to refer to the perfunctory way in which [...]

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Praying the Hours in 2009

Posted by cicw

If, like me, one of your New Year’s resolutions was to pray more—and if, like me, you’re a recent convert to Twitter—you might be interested in this Twitter feed I set up. It posts one brief prayer per hour (using FutureTweets); currently each prayer is from the Psalms. Too often I find myself caught up [...]

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GR Press on Stockbridge Boiler Room community facing zoning issues

Posted by cicw

We saw this story in our local paper last weekend, featuring Symposium 2009 presenters Jenn and Tony Tendero: A prayer group that meets in a three-stall garage on the city’s West Side has run afoul of officials in the city’s Planning Department. They have asked the Stockbridge Boiler Room to apply for a special land-use [...]

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CRCNA article on Thanksgiving Confession

Posted by cicw

CRCNA.org ran this article on Thansgiving worship at Unity Christian High School in Hudsonville, Michigan, including this service of Thanksgiving confession. Nov. 21, 2008– The Spiritual Leadership Committee at Unity Christian High School led a special chapel service in 2005 in which prayers of thanksgiving were coupled with confession. It was a way of linking [...]

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