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Six Weeks of Prayer: Saturday, November 4, 2017

What is the only basis for any confidence we have? Why would we presume to say that we are a church with a living, daring confidence in God’s grace through the gospel of Jesus Christ? The last part is significant: through the gospel of Jesus Christ, we are emboldened to stand confidently. There is no […]
Six Weeks of Prayer: Friday, November 3, 2017

We have made a mistake in determining who should be involved in the work of ministry. When identifying laborers for the vineyard, we should look for conviction, character, and competency. Most look for only the last! God is not looking for the strongest, but the one whose knowledge of him shapes those traits listed above. […]
Six Weeks of Prayer: Thursday, November 2, 2017

What is the work to which the Holy Spirit has called Saul and Barnabas? It is the work of an itinerant evangelist throughout the Mediterranean world. They would go from place to place, and, by God’s grace, establish a church through their preaching ministry. Christians rightly get excited about these missionary endeavors, but we forget […]
Six Weeks of Prayer: Wednesday, November 1, 2017

How are they to preach unless they are sent? This a good question for us to pray through together, recognizing the vitality of proclaiming the gospel and its freedom to those who struggle from guilt or sin’s power. How are they to preach unless they are sent? Preachers (which includes you and me – we […]
Six Weeks of Prayer: Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Six Weeks of Prayer: Monday, October 30, 2017
Six Weeks of Prayer: Sunday, October 29, 2017
Six Weeks of Prayer: Saturday, October 28, 2017

Before arriving at verse 16, Paul tells us to “put on … compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another …[and] forgiving each other.” Above all of this, he says to put on love. This is a tall order, especially in light of what comes naturally to us (see 3:8-10). How does […]
Six Weeks of Prayer: Friday, October 27, 2017

What a wonderful declaration of belief! After the resurrection, Jesus had appeared to the other disciples, but not to Thomas. The others told him, “We have seen the Lord!”, but Thomas responded that unless he not only saw Jesus but actually touched him, he would never believe. Jesus answers his challenge by appearing before him […]
Six Weeks of Prayer: Thursday, October 26, 2017

A tiny backwater village, Nazareth was a place of no consequence, without any expectation that anyone from there would amount to anything. To award someone from there as “least likely to succeed” does not go far enough: they would be viewed derisively and with contempt by anyone from any sort of privilege. And such is […]