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Tolstoy wrote, "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."

The practice of prayer and of the spiritual disciplines is intended to bring the abundance of God into our daily lives.

Throughout 2009, we will continue on our path toward God and our quest for personal transformation. 

Join us as we continue to apply the discipline of prayer and examine the other classical spiritual disciplines of church history.

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Prayer

Why don't we pray? We have all offered the usual excuses:
"I don't have time."
"I don't know how."
"I can't get any time alone."

If we are honest, the responses should be something like this:
"I doubt prayer."
"I doubt God."
"My prayers don't go anywhere."
"I fear prayer."
"I fear the change that prayer can bring."

If we were to use these answers in any other relationship, we would find ourselves without the relationship. That is to say, in our relationships we work to communicate with each other. Why should our relationship with God be any different? The language of our prayer is the language between friends, between parent and child, between master and servant, between lovers.

Stewardship is personal responsibility for taking care of another person's property or financial affairs. Historically, stewardship was the responsibility given household servants to bring food and drinks to a big castle dining hall. The term was then expanded to indicate a household employee's responsibility for managing household or domestic affairs. Stewardship later became the responsibility for taking care of passengers' domestic needs on a ship, train and airplane, or managing the service provided to diners in a restaurant. The term continues to be used in these specific ways, but it is also used in a more general way to refer to a responsibility to take care of something one does not own.

This series concluded on March 14th.

If you have missed any of this series, we plan to have the podcasts available shortly.

Come and Join us as we explore the nature, causes and effects of poverty in the world. In this series Mosaic will be focusing on the role of the church in the world, simple actions that can have a big impact and more.