Why is the Lord’s Prayer So Formulaic? (podcast)

Sermon: God Needs Prayer July 25, 2013

In this sermon clip, Greg Boyd discusses some of the challenges we face when praying. The full sermon wrestles with questions like: If God is all-powerful, does he need our prayers to change this world? And is it even worth praying if we can’t see the results? Greg addresses these questions as he begins a…

Bowing to the American Flag. Literally. April 13, 2013

Kurt Willems shared this interesting item he found on Amazon. In the product description it admonishes us to: Submit yourself to the Prayer Bench and open up your life to receive more of God. Hmmmmmm. How about we just submit ourselves to God?

If God is already doing the most he can do, how does prayer increase his influence? April 27, 2011

Question: If God always does the most that he can in every tragic situation, as you claim in Satan and the Problem of Evil,  how can you believe that prayer increases his influence, as you also claim?  It seems if you grant that prayer increases God’s influence, you have to deny God was previously doing…

How Does God Hear All Our Prayers? July 16, 2009

Q: At any given moment there are millions of people praying to God. How is it possible for God to pay attention to my little, silent prayer amidst all the chatter? The reason you or I can only effectively listen to one person at a time is because we only have a limited amount of…

Podcast: Why Does Prayer Feel So Fake? May 23, 2018

Greg talks about practicing a prayer discipline and battling against feelings of superficiality in prayer.  http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0335.mp3

Lighten Up: Eat, Pray, Love March 7, 2014