{"id":4054,"date":"2008-08-11T00:20:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T00:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2008\/08\/unanswered-prayer-a-query.html"},"modified":"2008-08-11T00:20:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T00:20:06","slug":"unanswered-prayer-a-query","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2008\/08\/unanswered-prayer-a-query.html","title":{"rendered":"Unanswered Prayer: A Query"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I throw this letter open to you &#8230; <!--more|inline--><br \/>\nDear Scot,<br \/>\nI am a regular and appreciative reader of Jesus Creed. I wonder if you and\/or the blog community can help me find material for an adult church program.<br \/>\nWe want to offer something on illness and faith to help deal with such basic questions as why won&#8217;t my faith cure me? etc. It doesn&#8217;t matter how much our pastor tries to address this topic in his preaching, the same anxieties and misunderstandings keep coming up. We think a DVD with personal testimony would be more effective than a book. I see that Paraclete has one by Walter Wangerin, but before we spend any money, I&#8217;d like to know if you think it is an effective teaching tool, or if there are other good ones out there. I should add that many of the people likely to come to the class are older (55+).<br \/>\nWould you consider posting a query to this effect on the blog? I&#8217;ve gotten many good tips from the comments in the past and I think this topic would interest other people addressing these issues in their Sunday classes.<br \/>\nThanks so much!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I throw this letter open to you &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer-and-formation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Unanswered Prayer: A Query - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2008\/08\/unanswered-prayer-a-query.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Unanswered Prayer: A Query - 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