A Prayer for Worshipers

Day sixteen of a thirty-day experiment in spiritual formation and gratitude

At about the turn of the century from 19th to 20th century life, James Doyle Penrose, an Irish painter, was disturbed by the lack of vitality in the Christian church. He knew there had been moments of vitalness and power. But he was not seeing it in his time. It ate away at his spirit as he quietly sought the reason. Then, as he read scripture, an epiph…