The first step towards getting an answer to these questions is understanding one of God’s attributes called His immutability. God’s immutability simply means He does not change.

Our persistence … especially asking God to do certain things in our prayers … is an expression of our faith that God answers our prayers. Our faith should not die if the answers come slowly … for the ...

Not long ago a woman came to me for spiritual direction. As most spiritual directors do, I started by setting out some guidelines: how often to meet, what times, what direction will entail. Then I ...

‘Please, let not my Lord grow angry if I speak up this last time. What if there are at least ten there?’ He replied, ‘For the sake of those ten, I will not destroy it.’” (Gen 8:32) Why is God intent ...

Tom Griffin is the chair of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of a print and online Catholic magazine called The Empty Tomb ...

When we see Paul saying he used his prayer language more than anyone, we know it's from God. No one I know of was more used than Paul in the scriptures. Read 1 Cor.13 prayerfully. God gave him his ...

We are told that one should pray for: believers, community, compassion, courage, deliverance, an end to poverty, endurance, our enemies, everyone, financial stability ...

In the many occasions we witness or experience with congregants, rabbis are asked, “Rabbi, what is the right prayer to say?” And while often, there is a blessing or psalm that matches the simcha or ...

People often seek protection primarily for the feeling of safety, direction, and support that it can provide in a world of ...

Members of the Living Faith Christian Center congregation sing a hymn at a prayer vigil in 2016. (Credit: Gerald Herbert/AP.) Listen God is an absolute mystery. No matter what we can say about him, ...

Those distractions aren’t failures of focus, but opportunities to trust God with the deepest truths of our hearts. One evening when I (Kyle) was in seminary, I went with some classmates to a professor ...

Ms. Sherbill is the author of “There Was Night and There Was Morning: A Memoir of Trauma and Redemption.” This year keeps breaking our hearts. A partial list: a divisive presidential election seeding ...