|
(4/25/01 - Today) On This Page: 1/22/08 - Today "Is binn gach eun 'na dhoire fhein." ("Sweet sings each bird in his own grove." -Old Gaelic Saying) ___________________________________________ |
Next Next
Topic
|
|
||
|
Prayer
Foundation / Prayer
/ God's
Word / FYI
/ Monks / Features
/ Books / Movies /
Search Our Site /
Home
/ Site
Map / Become
A Monk / Contributors
Gifts / Contact Us Email us at: monks@prayerfoundation.org (Also: take
our Survey!
...we need your
feedback!)
5/7/08___________________________________ Survey: 4/21/08__________________________________ Informative, interesting, inspiring. 4/19/08__________________________________ Interesting...loved the green. (Colorado) 4/12/08__________________________________
First of all, congratulations on combining the Protestant
commitment to the sole authority of the Scriptures with a respect for
the Godly men and women the Catholic
Church reveres. Furthermore, adopting the Monastic
traditions into a Protestant belief system in today's
society was long overdue.
Please include me in your newsletters
and emails. I look forward to becoming
a lay Monk and being a part of The Prayer Foundation ™.
Based on your website, I'm truly excited about the Evangelical
void your ministry is filling. As a former Catholic,
it is welcoming to see traditions and heroes of Christianity
acknowledged in an Evangelical outreach.
God bless you and your Ministry.
Joe S. 4/10/08__________________________________ Finally, someone who shares my beliefs. Your Plan of Salvation and Statement of Faith are Biblically based and reflect the teachings of the Father. For several years I have been disillusioned with the contemporary church and have been seeking a more traditional non-secular foundation that believes in the Word of God and the importance of prayer. Please accept the enclosed donation as I am requesting a Monk Certificate and Card. I had begun praying the hours last year... The three daily times of prayer during the day provide time for reflection, praise, and ease the daily stress of the work-a-day world. God be praised and may he bring joy to you and yours. Being of Scot-Irish descent, I find your web pages heartening and wonderfully inspiring. Together in Christ, John F. (North Carolina) 4/9/08___________________________________ My name is Brian and I happened upon The Prayer Foundation ™ website several months ago. I really feel that finding you was a direct response from God to my prayers. For a long time, I have felt a strong tug at my heart to be a part of a Christian order, but until now have not been able to find an order in which I could place my heart. I have been following the daily prayer outlines you have provided within the site for some time now and have been wonderfully delighted with how they have helped me connect to the Father more and more intensely each day, but even more by having structure in my prayer. I have been connecting with those around me more deeply and have felt like a more effective witness to the Peace and Joy that the Father promises. Please accept my check in support of all you are doing, and also for a Monk Certificate & Card so that I may join you in your endeavors. Thank you so much for your time and I look forward to sharing in God's promises with you. Your brother in Christ, Brian S. (Michigan) 4/8/08___________________________________ Survey: 4/7/08___________________________________ Survey: 3/8/08___________________________________
I wanted to tell you all how much I love your
website. I came across it when I was looking for the Saint
Patrick's Breastplate prayer. Your prayer
page is excellent and it gave me some great ideas for my
prayer times. The Lord's been working on me about praying more
and I'm excited to try some of your
suggestions.
God bless you!
Tracy W. (Missouri)
2/13/08__________________________________
Dear Monk Linda,
Do consider Elizabeth
Elliot for a write up...I believe there is a movie about her
now.
Love your website.
Blessings,
Georgia S.
(Tallahassee, Florida)
2/6/08__________________________________ Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I am writing to tell you that your website is helping to change my life. I was raised in the church and have been a Christian for many years, but I was a lazy Christian. I rarely read the Bible, quit going to church because it became too political, and generally only prayed when I wanted something. Several months ago, however, I found your website and made a promise to myself, and God, that I would start the New Year by "Praying the Hours" daily. I've stuck with it and can honestly say, I'm starting to see a change in myself. And I know I'm doing something right because I'm now being attacked on all sides by the enemy. Even more recently, I've started praying for the prayer requests that come in on the prayer chain page and I feel that my prayers are being heard and making a difference. My prayer has become so much more than it was before and I feel like I'm actually making a connection with God now. I've read more of the Bible in the last four weeks than I've read in the last four years, and I truly believe the Holy Spirit is guiding me. My main purpose in writing is to ask to become a monk in The Prayer Foundation ™ with Postulant status. I want to thank you for such a great ministry. I have found so many resources via your website and I really feel like I'm growing in my walk with Christ. I'm going to start directing others to your Site and I'm also going to start listening to Dr. McGee's radio program in the coming weeks. Thank you again for all that you do. In Christ, James G. (Florida) 2/5/08__________________________________ Survey:
How Found: While
searching the web for info. on establishing a "prayer life". 2/4/08__________________________________
Monk Preston,
I love the new page on the communion
table/altar - btw, beautiful
picture of you and Monk Linda. And yes, we all do want
to see more pictures of the chapel
and to share in your lives even from a distance...thank you for
letting us in...thank you for all the work you do in your roles as a
teacher and source of inspiration. Please do add more photos as
you feel comfortable.
My personal request would be a nice large jpg of the chapel
altar that I could use as desktop background for my PC...that
would help remind me to offer my work to the Lord during the day!
Much love,
Monk Karen (New Jersey)
Info. from The Prayer Foundation ™:
We did this ourselves, and now have the Chapel Altar/Communion Table photo as our own "desktop" (even though the real thing is just in the next room!). We like to change our computer desktop photo from time to time, but always return to our own personal favorite, the beautiful painting "Venerable Bede Translating John" by J. D. Penrose. 2/3/08__________________________________ I liked your site and was impressed with the raw, unbiased presentation of the information. Lori G. 2/2/08__________________________________ Greetings of the blessed Triune
God! 2/1/08__________________________________ Dear Monks, 1/31/08__________________________________ (Found your website by:)
Pure accident, ran
across it while surfing the web looking for info. on Celtic
crosses. 1/30/08__________________________________ The Prayer Foundation is
my home page. I check out something on your site almost
every day. Your site has been a source of encouragement for me
during those spiritually dry times that we all experience at one time or
another. It has also been a source of inspiration and information
for me while I endeavor to serve the Lord in prayer and study of His
Holy Word. The
Prayer Foundation, Monks,
and Prayer Warriors
are on my daily prayer list. Thank you for your service to Him. 1/26/08__________________________________
Please subscribe me to the E-Newsletter.
I am so blessed by reading your pages and learning and growing.
Weekly I go to the prayer
requests and read and pray over them.
You and The Prayer
Foundation are on my personal prayer list. I am
praying and believing that 2008 will be a great year for your
ministry.
Brother John
1/25/08__________________________________ Come On Preston! Monk Preston, I commend your desire to get back to the monastic values of the historical church but I think you have erred in some of your representations on your website. You cite deeply Catholic sources while claiming tenets of various Protestant ideologies. Luther put down monasticism in his own time and thought it was a scourge of Christianity, yet he is posted on your webpages as a herald of the true faith. The more I read the sadder the story goes. Come on, your whole website is filled with historical inaccuracy, I am sincerely grieved. So, were the monks that you quote Born Again? They believed in the sacraments, church dogma, the order of church authority as seen through the Bishops. St. Francis is so far removed from what you would call Biblical Christianity, it is laughable. ...sola sola sola ridiculous! I will give you this, you are drawing from some of the best sources that Catholics and Protestants have to offer, but what gives you the right to create a matrix of Christian thought and practice as if I'm watching Martin all over again? But you want to rebuild what your Protestant fathers tried to destroy. Frankly, the Reformers you quote, all but Billy, would see you more as a monastic Anabaptist and have you killed or in the very least uprooted from your home. One more fresh move of God, how boring. (No Name, State, or Country Given) Comment from The Prayer Foundation ™: Commending our "desire to get back to the monastic values of the historic church"; saying that we are "drawing from some of the best sources that Catholics and Protestants have to offer"; commenting that looking at our ministry is like "watching another Martin (Luther) all over again" (whose shoes, indeed, we are not worthy to unloose); and finally, condemning us as another (albeit "boring") "fresh move of God". All we can say is (to turn the old phrase upon its head): "With enemies like these, who needs friends?". Thank you for your most encouraging comments. And we mean that sincerely. 1/22/08__________________________________ Greetings to all the Monks of God,A few months ago I was touched by the Lord. I have been reading the Bible ever since...I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ, and accepted God's will. I...found your website...I enjoyed the St. Manchan's poem greatly, I read it almost everyday. There is a Bible school I want to enroll in here in South Africa; the people there obey God. I have been praying hard...I have seen what your prayers have done for people... Regards, Bandi M. (South Africa) _________________________________________________________________ Next Previous Page of Letters (Page 78) Copyright © 2008 S.G.P. All rights reserved. Next Topic Past "Your Comments" Index
|
"So we pray because we were made for prayer, and God draws us out by breathing Himself in." -P. T. Forsyth, "The Soul of Prayer"
|
|||
Your
Comments:
™
