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What is the role of corporate prayer in the church? Prayer is as necessary to the Christian as breathing is to the human body—but it often doesn’t come quite as naturally. In fact, prayer in the church often gets subtly pushed to the side in favor of pragmatic practices that promise tangible results. This book focuses on the necessity of regular prayer as a central practice in the local...

cake, he realized he could have it on demand from his gullible uncle if he simply uttered the word in commanding fashion: “Cake! Cake!” Every time he’d come over, the first word out of his mouth would be “Cake!” I, of course, was a sucker and would give it to him … until my wife intervened. “Jackson, if you want cake, that’s not how we ask. If you want cake, you say, ‘Cake please.’ ” From that point on, we began to catechize little Jackson. Whenever he would demand “Cake!” we’d respond, “Jackson,
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