Sentence examples for evangelical prayer from inspiring English sources
Evangelical prayer is much more than mumbled grace at dinnertime.
Rather than a critical view of hallucinations (for this, see Oliver Sacks's latest book on the subject), Ms. Luhrmann's essay is little more than a thinly veiled apologia for evangelical prayer.
"I cannot allow the sadness to take over, since opportunity will follow this hard phase," said Simonvil Cenel, 33, a tailor awaiting a visa who leads animated evangelical prayer services for those stuck in limbo after enduring so much to get here.
Now a born-again Christian, the father of five never travels without his own football team and a choir, where he combines matches against local team with evangelical prayer sessions, according to the AFP news agency.
That's why Texas Gov. Rick Perry has every right to organize and participate in a massive evangelical "prayer rally" in Houston next month.
In the heavily Southern Baptist small town of Santa Fe, Texas, as the legal scholar Peter Irons has written about, a group of Catholic and Mormon families banded together to sue their school district over the offering of evangelical prayers voiced over the loudspeaker before school football games.
In many evangelical churches, prayer is understood as a back-and-forth conversation with God — a daydream in which you talk with a wise, good, fatherly friend.
By almost every measure of religiosity — attending worship, reading sacred texts and prayer — evangelical scientists claim higher levels of observance than evangelicals in general.
Evangelicals began forming prayer circles outside the Council chambers.
Mr. Graham has emerged as a major figure among evangelical Protestants, offering prayers at national events, including President Bush's inauguration.
This picture from Cody High School in Detroit is real and, increasingly, what Christian "mission" looks like as a growing movement of evangelicals stop arguing about school prayer and evangelism prohibitions and jump in simply to support students and teachers.
