Summer Bible Study "Pray Always" found in Lutheran Women Today (LWT) is the three-session study written by the Rev. Gladys Moore. Moore is an ordained pastor in the ELCA. For more than 22 years she served as an urban pastor in Jersey City and in Newark, N.J. and for 16 of those years she was also assistant to the bishop of the ELCA New Jersey Synod. Pastor Moore now serves as dean of religious and spiritual life at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass.
In the first session (June issue of LWT), you will learn about what Jesus and the early evangelists thought and taught about the importance of being persistent in prayer. The text is focused on the parable of the persistent widow in Luke 18.
The second session (July/August issue) will look at a few passages in the Hebrew Bible tyhat exhort us to "wait upon the Lord" and will explore the relationship between prayer and waiting.
The final session (also in July/August) seeks to understand the power of prayer to change us and perhaps our circumstances too.
Moore writes, "The goal of this study is to deepen our relationships with God, ourselves and one another by attending to the word and will of God, ourselves and one another by attending to the word and will of God for our lives and our world. "As we bring our authentic selves to these studies–may we be reminded that each of our lives is indeed a prayer, as Jesus lives and serves through us."
