Importunate Prayer, or Is It Necessary?

S. Lewis Johnson Message of the Week

Why isn’t it enough to simply ask God once? Listen as Dr. Lewis Johnson skillfully teaches straight from the Biblical text the necessity of persistent prayer.

Importunate Prayer, or Is It Necessary?
Part 8 of an 8-week series on Prayer Read more

The Necessity of Prayer

S. Lewis Johnson Message of the Week

Why pray? Listen as Dr. S. Lewis Johnson unleashes the supreme argument for the necessity of prayer, the prayer life of our Savior Jesus Christ.

The Necessity of Prayer
Part 7 of an 8-week series on Prayer

The Problem of Unanswered Prayer – Part 2

S. Lewis Johnson Message of the Week

Why does God seemingly leave some well intentioned prayers unanswered? Listen as Dr. S. Lewis Johnson concludes his fantastic message “The Problem of Unanswered Prayers” by examining five types of answered prayers in the texts of Scripture.

The Problem of Unanswered Prayer – Part 2
Part 6 of an 8-week series on Prayer

The Problem of Unanswered Prayer

S. Lewis Johnson Message of the Week

Jesus promises his disciples in John 15:7, “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you.” But, how do we square this text with the universal experience of unanswered prayers? Listen as Dr. S. Lewis Johnson in the first of his two part message “The Problem of Unanswered Prayers,” adeptly examines three ways in which believers are prone to error with regards to prayer.

The Problem of Unanswered Prayer
Part 5 of an 8-week series on Prayer

Prayer and the Decrees

S. Lewis Johnson Message of the Week

The Westminster Confession avows that “God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass.” If everything is “unchangeably ordained,” then what effect can prayer possibly have? Listen as Dr. S. Lewis Johnson tackles this difficult topic in his message “Prayer and the Decrees.”

Prayer and the Decrees
Part 4 of an 8-week series on Prayer

Prayer and the Attributes – Part 2

S. Lewis Johnson Message of the Week

If God is a God of love, does He not already do for us what is best for us without our requesting it? Furthermore, if God is of an infinite being, is it possible that He should desire to be concerned with the little things of our daily life? Listen to Dr. S. Lewis Johnson’s captivating response in his message “Why bother an Infinite, Omnipotent God of Love?”

Prayer and the Attributes, or Does Prayer Change an Unchanging God
Part 3 of an 8-week series on Prayer

Prayer and The Attributes

S. Lewis Johnson Message of the Week

Does prayer change an unchanging God? Listen as Dr. S. Lewis Johnson acutely examines the interrelationship between God’s purposes and the supplication of His saints.

Prayer and the Attributes, or Why Bother an Infinite, Omnipotent God of Love
Part 2 of an 8-week series on Prayer

The Theology of Prayer

Dr. S. Lewis Johnson Audio Message of the Week

Part 1 of an 8-week series on Prayer.  TheChristianWorldview.com will be posting a link every Sunday morning to an audio message by the late, great expository preacher, Dr. S. Lewis Johnson from Believer’s Chapel in Dallas.  I hope you’ll take advantage of this opportunity to hear one of the greatest preachers of the second half of the 20th century. 

John Calvin, the champion of the doctrine predestination, wrote, “The principal exercise which the children of God have is to pray, for in this way they give a true proof of their faith.” But, isn’t a staunch belief in the doctrines of predestination and foreordination a hindrance to a believer’s prayer life? Listen as Dr. S. Lewis Johnson begins his eight part series on prayer and carefully navigates his audience through the challenging waters of prayer and the attributes of God.

The Theology of Prayer: What is Prayer – The Nature, Object and Grounds of Prayer

Psst, Gay Bishop Gene Robinson – God Ain’t Listening (Ps. 66:18)

Blogger Bio: Jan Markell is an author and radio host of Understanding the Times.  Find out more at OliveTreeViews.org.

The Obama administration and America are heading into treacherous territory.  There are certain kinds of behavior that seem to anger God more than others and at this point, America is already on shaky ground. President-elect Obama has asked V. Gene Robinson, the openly gay Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, to deliver the invocation at a pre-inaugural event this Sunday on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Bishop Robinson said he had been reading inaugural prayers through history and was “horrified” at how “specifically and aggressively Christian they were.” He states, “I am very clear that this will not be a Christian prayer, and I won’t be quoting Scripture. The texts I hold as sacred are not sacred texts for all Americans, and I want all people to feel that this is their prayer.”

Robinson said he might address the prayer to “the god of our many understandings,” language that he said he learned from Read more

To Pray or Not to Pray in Jesus’ Name? That Is The Question

Those of you who heard The Christian Worldview radio program on November 8th will recall that I was broadcasting from Sarasota, Florida where I was attending the 30th anniversary reunion of the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. The Academy is renowned for producing some of the world’s best tennis players such as Andre Agassi, Monica Seles, Maria Sharapova, Jim Courier, and many others (the Academy is now a multi-sport training facility called IMG Academies). When I was 15 years old and halfway through my sophomore year of high school, my parents and I left home in Minnesota so that I could train at the Academy for my final two and a half years of high school.

I was asked several months ago by the organizing committee to give the opening invocation to the 350 guests at the Saturday evening gala dinner event which took place at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Sarasota. I accepted and immediately started to think how I was going to pray amongst a very diverse group of people – Christians, Jews, atheists, agnostics, New-Agers, secularists, and maybe some Hindus and Muslims.

I recalled earlier this year that Ravi Zacharias was asked to pray on the National Day of Prayer but with this caveat: that he not pray in the name of Jesus Christ. He chose to Read more