Category Archives : Practices of Christian Devotion (Rayburn)

Text: Ecclesiastes 5:1-7; Psalm 15:1-4; Acts 18:18
If you commonplace your Bible as I do, collect in one spot both various cross references that help you illuminate the teaching of God’s Word on any particular subject and quotations that…

Before we plunge into our study of self-denial, let me sum up what we have learned so far. Taking meditation, prayer, and solitude together, the spiritual disciplines we have considered to this point in our series, we have been reminded that the C…

“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” [Psalm 46:10]
Our subject this evening is silence and solitude. Now, there is a sense in which silence and solitude might be con…

The last two Lord’s Day evenings we have emphasized the nature of prayer as conversation with God, the same kind of conversation that we have with one another; “earnest and familiar talking with God,” as John Knox put it. There i…

Last time, in introducing the life of prayer we concentrated on the nature of prayer as conversation with God. And we said that our first interest and our primary goal in our own life of prayer is to be sure that our prayer is nothing less than re…

After considering meditation upon the Word of God over two Lord’s Day evenings, we come to prayer. If the first is an effort to hear what the Lord is saying to us, the second is our speaking to him in turn. And, I’ll tell you frankly, …

Last week I began this short series on the practices of Christian devotion or what have long been called the “spiritual disciplines” with an introduction to the practice of meditation. You may be interested to learn that even what prac…

Some time ago I made passing reference in an evening service to the fact that no one can meditate on the amount of Scripture that one must read each day to read the Bible through in a year. I have long had the habit of reading through the Bible in…