W. Robert Godfrey
speaker
2,522 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 31 Jul
W. Robert Godfrey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Not that I go to movies, I just hear these reports.
The points in a movie where some important person is passing through a church—the church, of course, is always a non-Protestant church.
The church is always kind of dark and architecturally impressive.
And the hero or heroine in flight comes to a point in the church where there are little candles burning.
And the hero or the heroine pauses to light a candle.
A sentimental moment.
The whole idea is this candle is a prayer before God.
And after I leave the church, my prayer will stay behind, burning before God.
This is a moment of anti-prayer.
This is a moment that is appalling if you really think about it.
I don't want to spoil anybody's feel-good moment, but this is terrible.
It's the opposite of prayer.
Prayer is not an invention of some activity that we make that we invest with some kind of meaning that God has never talked about.
And most particularly, prayer is not a physical object that we leave behind burning when we are not praying as if we were still praying.
God doesn't want you to light a candle.
maybe at Thanksgiving dinner on the table, but I mean in general.
God does not want you to light a candle.
He wants you to pause and talk to Him.
He doesn't want you to light a candle and leave Him behind as if you've fulfilled some sacred duty.
He wants you to talk to Him.
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