Message for May 20
This Sunday, Pastor David Wick's message is titled Fear Not: Suffering, Affliction, and Death, drawing from Psalm 56.
Living Prayer - May 2012
by Rev. Dr. David Wick, Senior Pastor
The Muslim is called to prayer morning and evening by a cry from the minaret at the mosque. In Christian monasteries the ringing of a bell calls the monks to prayer morning, evening, and at midnight. These calls to prayer call the worshiper away from the world to the prayer rug or the chapel. They make prayer regular, but may not lead to the life of unceasing prayer made imperative in 1 Thessalonians 5:17. Maxie Dunham, retired president of Asbury Seminary, suggested in his classic Workbook of Living Prayer three calls to prayer that come to every Christian. These calls are very different from the formalized cry from the minaret and the ringing of the monastery bell at regular hours.