Posts Tagged ‘ prayer ’

Your Input on a Prayer Group

So I recently met a fellow believer at work and after dialoging for a little bit we concluded that it may be beneficial if we started up a prayer group with fellow believers. I’ve never done anything like this (a prayer group) before at the workplace, so this is new territory for me. These were [ READ MORE ]

Pastor’s Heart For the Flock

John Piper’s final closing prayer on his last Sunday (April 25th) prior to his eight month sabbatical which started May 1st. He has committed to praying this or something similar until he returns. O Lord, as you are often accustomed to do, show your great power in my absence. Send a remarkable awakening that results [ READ MORE ]

Ray Ortlund on Prayers of the Hypocrite

“Ask, and it will be given to you” (Matthew 7:7). Does prayer really come with a guarantee?  Here is one prayer God will surely answer.  It’s implied in the context. In verse 3 Jesus says, “Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is [ READ MORE ]

Help Me to Adore Thee by Lips and Life; Praying for Balance

By Russ Help me to adore thee by lips and life. The above line is taken from a puritan prayer. I found it to be a wonderful thing to pray. What makes this prayer so helpful is it asks God to do two things that we all need him to do inour lives. First, to [ READ MORE ]

on Christ’s Prayers For Us

“It is a consoling thought that Christ is praying for us, even when we are negligent in our prayer life; that he is presenting to the Father those spiritual needs which were not present to our minds and which we often neglect to include in our prayers; and that he prays for our protection against [ READ MORE ]

Free Book on How to Pray for Your Wife

A few months ago I wrote on how I pray for my wife. In that post I highlighted a book called, “Water of the Word,” by Andrew Case. What Case Has done is take sections of Scripture and personalized them in such a way as to make them prayers for his wife. Most books that [ READ MORE ]

What I don’t Want from H3

H3 is one of my Church’s leadership development programs. H3 stands for head, heart, hands; these are the things we want to use for the Lord’s glory and the body’s good. The First class is today. I have been thinking a lot about what I would like to get out of this time and even [ READ MORE ]

an Odds and Ends of Sorts

In place of the normal odds and ends (the news bored me this week), two random and unrelated things I’ve been kicking around my head this week, an internal odds and ends of Russ: Proverbs 21:1, which says, “The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD; he directs it like a watercourse wherever [ READ MORE ]

Odds and Ends

FREE BIO ON CALVIN I am Praising God for Desiring God republishing T. H. L. Parker’s Portrait of Calvin. To add to the sweetness of this you can get it free in PDF form here. Prayer: One Story, Six Quotations Randy Alcorn has written a gem on prayer. Click here to read. Safety in Repetition [ READ MORE ]

Reaching Your Toddler, Social Networking, the Local Church and the Power of Redeemed Community

A few months ago posted a blog post from Desiring God on how to preach the gospel to your kids on facebook. I tagged a lot of the parents I know in my local church. They in turned commented on the list and added to it. I found there additions noteworthy and a helpful expansion [ READ MORE ]

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