My wife stitched a needlework for our home that says, “Life is fragile. Handle with prayer.” But to many with a secular mindset, prayer is meaningless. In our politically correct age, the notion of “thoughts and prayers” is old-fashioned—maybe even offensive to some. Consider some alternatives, declares one website: “It’s a lovely sentiment that may […]

  Throughout America’s history, many times there have been calls for prayer. Even Thanksgiving is a day delegated for national thanksgiving to God. Here’s an example of the Continental Congress from March 16, 1776 calling for a national day of “humiliation fasting, and prayer, “that we may with united hearts confess and bewail our manifold sins and […]

The National Day of Prayer is Thursday, and we can anticipate protests over prayer having a role in the official life of government.  But this is nothing new.  In fact, this is the very manner in which our nation began.