“Repentance, prayer, and righteousness avert the evil decree.” I’ve struggled for years with this powerful piece of prayer from the u’netaneh tokef that we recite on Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur. The ...

The prayer of supplication includes petition. As the Holy Spirit moves within us, the first impulse toward petition is repentance. As we draw closer to God, we realize who we are before him, how we ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- Huntsville's third annual Area-Wide Repentance Day Prayer Breakfast was held Sept. 8 after 40 days of prayer and consecration. More than 60 ministers and leaders from several ...

Maybe the most emotionally-charged of all the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur prayers is וּנְתַנֶּה תֹּקֶף, U-netanneh Tokef, which appears in the Mussaf (Additional Service) of both: “We hereby ...

The Jesus Prayer is a brief but profound appeal to God, expressing repentance and a request for mercy. In the Orthodox tradition, this prayer is considered one of the most powerful, helping to cleanse ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His Slave and Messenger.

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. The person who suffers from ...

Mumbai: Like most Parsis when Hanoz Mistry heads to Fire Temple today, he will not only perform regular prayers but also some personal prayers too. Mistry said he will recite Patet Pashemani (prayer ...

After David Platt called it “superstitious,” resolution says it’s no incantation. The vote wasn’t taken with every head bowed and every eye closed, but delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention ...

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