Passion Produces Tears My wife was giving birth to our first child and things didn’t go as planned. Emma got stuck and both my daughter and my wife were in trouble. It was a frightening time for all of us. But one of the things I remember most about those hours of uncertainty was seeing [...]
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Pray The Church To Life: Atmosphere
“O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your [...]
A Praying Church
My prayer life is anemic. This may surprise you. As an elder of the church, many might assume that my prayer life is robust. It is not. It is a land filled with distractions, sinfulness and apathy. In other words, I suck at prayer. I am guessing that your prayer life could use some work [...]
Ways To Pray For Your Church And The Church
One of the greatest things we can learn from the apostle Paul is how to pray. As we begin our journey through Philippians by focusing on one of Paul’s heart-felt, Gospel-motivated, God-glorifying prayers, I thought I would repost a short collection of some of Paul’s prayers. Pick some passages and pray them for Redeemer. Pick [...]
Fasting And Feasting And The Book of Malachi
Fasting And Feasting As I was preparing for Malachi I sensed something that as a church will be unique for us, a corporate fast. My hope is that as a church we will see individuals, by God’s grace, fast throughout the entire 7-week series. In other words, that at least one individual will fast every [...]
Pray Scripture
The following list of prayers is not exhaustive but will hopefully aid and encourage you to pray Scripture over others. By following Paul’s example of how he prayed we learn to pray with boldness, theological precision, and with confidence, convinced that what we pray is in agreement with God’s will as these prayers are God’s [...]