Fr. Stephen on prayer:

There is a failure in much of modern Christianity – a failure that is marked by a passivity in our approach to God. Some would justify such passivity by deriding certain actions as an example of “works righteousness,” mistakenly thinking that being saved by grace and not by works means that all we should do as Christians is believe. This is not even good Protestantism.

Possibly relevant to the Lutherans here. Given my past and my present, it does me a lot of good whenever I hear Fr. Stephen say positive things about the Pentecostals and Baptists around him.