Examining Faith

Building Your Personal House of Prayer offers the reader a plan for an extreme makeover of their prayer life. Larry Krieder has used the Lord’s Prayer as the model and basis for the twelve lessons presented in the book. Krieder helps the reader build their own house of prayer by using twelve rooms as his model. He begins with a courtyard, which represents the entryway in­to the 12 rooms or elements included in the Lord’s Prayer.

Coming into the courtyard of praise and thanksgiving, I felt the presence of the Lord Jesus as I offered up thanksgiving and praise. Moving on to the family room I felt secure in the Father’s love, and turning my attention to silently listening to him as I meditated on His Word.

Have you followed the 10 commandments? The question may seem odd. Who thinks about the ten commandments anymore, right? Aren’t we free from being under that law? Doesn’t being a Christian mean you go to church and then God forgives you for all your sins and then you go to heaven when you die? Well, no it really doesn’t mean that.

Being a Christian means you have repented of your sin and you follow Christ. So how do we know if we’ve sinned in the first place? Oh, yeah, back to that law. So let’s look a little closer at the 10 commandments and see which ones we have kept.

In the Christian faith, spiritual abuse is often thought of as great periods of religious persecution against masses of people. What is spiritual abuse? Does it exist today?