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Answering an Atheist: The Problem of "Evil"
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Spiritual Disciplines of the Christian Life: Praying in Personal Devotions
I provide below some guidelines, this time for individual prayer. The list is not exhaustive. I encourage the reader to add more guidelines.
1. find a good place
2. choose the right time
3. color your prayers with God's Word
4. address personal needs
5. pray from the heart
Such a prayer life requires discipline. Such worship of God requires commitment and resolve. Consistent, heartfelt prayer is hard work, and not without its challenges, as any child of God will testify. But God will give grace. Pray for that grace—the grace to pray! Pray, for prayer is “the chief part of thankfulness which God requires of us; and also, because God will give his grace and Holy Spirit to those only who with sincere desires continually ask them of him, and are thankful for them” (Lord’s Day 45, A. 116).
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Spiritual Disciplines of the Christian Life: Reading the Bible in Personal Devotions
I suspect that we all know the need for these private devotions, and the need to read the Bible by ourselves. But perhaps we do not always know how to go about this reading of scripture. And if we do not know how, we become discouraged before we even start. The following is some practical advice on how to read and study the Bible in our private worship.
1. study solitarily
2. think biblically
3. approach worshipfully
4. read meditatively
5. advance systematically
6. move slowly
7. remember frequently
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