Prayer is "the soul's blood" (seventeenth century poet George Herbert). What would it mean for the church to be a "house of prayer," even to become "The Lord's Prayer?" What would it mean for believers to move from "faith in praying" to "praying in faith?"

What do you do when you get anxious and troubled? Do you run to your room and cry it out? Do you run at the mouth and yell it out? Do you run to the neighbors and spill it out? Do you run to the therapist and lay it out? Jesus ran to the Lord and prayed it out.

The headline for an article in a recent national publication contained the phrase "local church," hyphenated to fit on two lines. The resulting headline read "THE LO-CALCHURCH." The difference between a local church that is alive and an anemic lo-cal church is The Power Called P…