Last night at Eastbrook, our India team reported on our trip and led the church in prayer for the ministries we visited while there. It was a very meaningful night for me to see so many gathered to learn and pray. To begin the night, I shared a video clip on India from Operation World's …
Prayer video (via Granger)
A friend passed along this gritty video on prayer produced by Granger Community Church. I appreciated the way that it presented the honesty, relationship, and listening aspects of prayer in a fairly creative and engaging way. What do you think?
Bounds on Preaching and Prayer
I came across this quotation from E. M. Bounds when reading Richard Foster's book, Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home. Bounds is one of our preeminent writers on prayer from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today, there is not always the same emphasis on prayer as a source of power for ministry that …
Article on Christians in Egypt – update for prayer
As a follow-up to my post last week about praying for Egypt, a friend tweeted about an article on Christianity Today's web-site recently which features some commentary by Egyptian Christians, including pastors, called "Egyptian Christians Join Call for Reform." Please take the few minutes necessary to read this article, and then take at least five …
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Pray for Egypt (via The Gospel Coalition)
Nearly everyone I talk to has been talking about our need to stand with brothers and sisters in Egypt these days. A friend passed along this very helpful post on The Gospel Coalition web-site from Ramez Atallah, general secretary of the Bible Society of Egypt. I have merely re-posted what he shared on that site. …
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