links for 2006-01-13 The power of a praying church Last Sunday Tope preached on prayer, launching both our new series and our week of prayer. Its now online, and well worth a listen – I was convicted. (tags: prayer article sermon mp3) Read more
links for 2006-01-13 The power of a praying church Last Sunday Tope preached on prayer, launching both our new series and our week of prayer. Its now online, and well worth a listen – I was convicted. (tags: prayer article sermon mp3) Read more
links for 2006-01-12 How to Pray for the Soul John Piper shares a great biblical perspective on how we should pray for ourselves that God would continue to enlighten our eyes and make our hearts undivided in devotion towards him (tags: prayer article) Read more
Piper quotes Paul’s pleas for his readers to pray for him and asks “Can you hear the depth of need this apostle feels for God’s help?” Piper is absolutely right to say that “….WHAT COUNTS MOST…… CANNOT BE ACCOMPLISHED BY MAN LEFT TO HIMSELF.” Please pray for me this year. I dont know which is scarier, knowing that I run a blog with a too-rapidly growing audience or that I preach to a church with a too-rapidly growing congregation. I... Read more
Telegraph email: “Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV. And the most British thing of all? Suspicion of anything foreign. Diagoras, Switzerland” Read more
links for 2006-01-11 What did the New Testament Church pray for? Do our priorities in prayer match up to those seen in the New Testament? (tags: prayer article) Rejoice! The Happiest People on Earth God cares whether or not there is joy in our hearts when we obey Him. He feels so strongly about this that…He tells Israel they will be enslaved because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart. (Deut.28:47) (tags: joy... Read more
My pal Dave Routledge took this picture and shares the story behind it. We pray because of the hunger of men like this who need so much more than the money they ask for. We pray because of the hunger of our own hearts to see God at work. We pray because there is something intoxicating about seeing lives dramatically changed whether they are our own or others. Pop over to his blog to see a bigger version, and tell... Read more
Piper: “Do you ever cry out to the Lord, ‘How long, 0 Lord, how long till you vindicate your cause in the earth? How long ’till you rend the heavens and come down with power on your church? How long till you bring forth victory among all the peoples of the world?’ The answer I have heard when I have called on the Lord in this way comes from Luke 18:7- when his people CRY TO HIM DAY AND NIGHT... Read more
Piper: “Not only has God made the accomplishment of his global purposes of salvation hang on the preaching of the Word; he has also made the success of the preaching of the Word hang on prayer. God’s goal to be glorified in a world full of white-hot worshippers from every people and tongue and tribe and nation will not succeed without the powerful proclamation of the gospel by people like you and me. And that gospel will not be proclaimed... Read more
Piper: “Very few people think that we are now in a war greater than World War II, and greater than any imaginable nuclear World War III. Or that Satan is a much worse enemy than Communism or militant Islam. Or that the conflict is not restricted to any one global theater, but is in every town and city in the world. Or that the casualties do not merely lose an arm or an eye or an earthly life, but lose... Read more
Prayer at yesterday evenings meeting focused on praying for the church, and mainly our own local church. We unashamedly spent some time praying for substantial growth in our numbers. It is funny how so many people today struggle with the notion of churches aggressively going after such growth. Tope had a brilliant line, he said, “we want numbers because every number is a person” There was a holy moment when we really started to cry out for the lost, and... Read more
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