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The Mystery of Prayer to a Sovereign God, part 1 [30 Days of Prayer]
The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." (Romans 8:15) One pervasive problem of prayer is how our prayers relate to the sovereignty of God. If God is all-knowing and rules over …
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Four Quotations on Prayer
This past weekend in my message "Making Space for Prayer," the first part of our series "The Art of Prayer" at Eastbrook Church, I shared four quotations on prayer that many people asked me about later. Here they are for your edification. “The truth is that we only learn to pray all the time everywhere after …
Five from Jonathan Edwards
I recently finished reading George Marsden's biography of Jonathan Edwards, Jonathan Edwards: A Life. Edwards is one of the premier thinkers of early colonial America and a pillar of American Calvinism influenced by the English Puritans. For more on Edwards, you can read a biography here. For Edwards' influence on a contemporary pastor, read John …
Matthew Erickson 