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John Hyde

John Hyde

The Prayer of Jabez became the rage in Christian circles some ten years ago, “O, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory!  Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain” (1 Chronicles 4.10).  The author...
John Hyde

Christmas Evans

I long for God to answer my prayers. I ask, I seek, and sometimes I even resort to begging God for divine intervention.  I’m not alone in this wrestling. Jacob wrestled with God all night long and lived to talk about it. We can add one more person to the...
John Hyde

James Caughey

Sometimes we don’t get what we ask in prayer. We get something better. An itinerant evangelist was preaching in England in 1846 on a verse from Mark’s gospel, “Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be...
John Hyde

Melania the Younger

The story of Melania Trump is a rags-to-riches tale. A young woman of modest means from an industrial town in Slovenia becomes a wealthy model and ends up living with you-know-who in the Mar-a-Lago mansion. Today’s story concerns another Melania in a...
John Hyde

Philipp Spener

The word “pious” has something of an image problem these days. Nobody wants to be labeled as pious. Pious people are roundly criticized for acting self-righteous and sanctimonious. Pious originates from a 15th century Latin word meaning devout and...