Category: Engaging the Culture

“I pray that by faith we would come to see Christ
In the dragon impaled and set up in the wilderness,
And that You would help us really to see
The glory of ultimate and real substitution.”

21 Prayers, p. 124

“Break up the ground that is fallow within us,
And raise up a crop that fits with Your purpose.
What You have determined should be grown in our lives,
Water it, grow it, and harvest it all.”

21 Prayers, p. 122

“I pray that this sin be removed in a way
That honors You deeply and lifts up Your name—
That no false device or evasive charade
Covers and hides what should not be covered.”

21 Prayers, p. 119

“I ask You, my God, to establish Your justice
Throughout our land through grace and more grace.
Restore in Your kindness, the doctrines of grace
To a people now empty, but once overflowing.
And take grace away from a truncated people
That they might then see how empty they are,
That they might then see how ungrateful they were,
That You might forgive and restore them again” ().

21 Prayers, p. 3

“As inveterate Pharisees, we always desire
To turn Your Word into something respectable,
Acceptable, tame, and fully domestic.
I pray that today Your Spirit would wield
Your Word in a way as to make us all see
It can never be tamed and never held down.”

21 Prayers, p. 116

“I pray that Your kingdom would continue to grow,
Silently, steadily, confusedly, gloriously,
I pray that this service, our worship this morning,
Would release a great deal of carbon dioxide
Into the loaf and thus make it rise.”

21 Prayers, pp. 115-116