Emphasis Preaching Journal

A Russian pilgrim in the nineteenth century wandered into a church service and heard the pastor preach on the text "Pray without ceasing." He wondered how that it was possible. He set out to find a solution to his problem by walking across the vast expanse of his native land until he could find someone to explain this text to him. No one seemed to have an answer until one day he asked a gentle starets, a Russian holy man, who taught him to say the Jesus prayer.