Melchizedek Blesses Abram (Gen 14.19-20)
A study of the prayer by the pagan priest, Melchizedek, who asks God to bless Abram. What does this passage teach us about prayer?
A study of the prayer by the pagan priest, Melchizedek, who asks God to bless Abram. What does this passage teach us about prayer?
Join Dr. Mark McDowell as he examines the second prayer found in the Bible: a blessings and curse-prayer by Noah. What can we learn about these types of prayer?
The ancient Celtic Christians felt keenly the importance of beginnings and endings. “Thin times,” they called them, when the barrier between the physical world and the spiritual world were thinner than usual. Christmas, when God entered the world in a unique way. The end of the year, when the planet finished one cycle and began the next. These were sacred moments, and many of the prayers reflect these concepts. Here are a three you can use for these times.
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“May the LORD make the woman who is coming into your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you produce children in Ephrathah and bestow a name in Bethlehem; and, through the children that the LORD will give you by this young woman, may your house be like…