Tag: Prayer
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Praying to be Rich
Sometime ago, I asked God to make me very rich – as in very, very rich! I now think that prayer was motivated by greed. Come to think of it, what would hundreds of hectares of land and billions of pesos in my bank account really mean to me on my deathbed? I am reminded […]
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A Prayer for the New Year 2018
Oh Father God, Have mercy now On me Thy wayward son. Please change my heart And make me pure; Make me willing to endure Thy judgments just, For then I trust I will come forth as gold Refined in fire, with cleansed desire: To love Thee above all.
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THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER
(An Ikthus East Sermon – July 2015) TEXT: Matthew 6:9-15 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5392301/Elements%20of%20Prayer.MP3 INTRODUCTION: Prayer is supposed to be as natural as breathing for Christians, but for many of us prayer is difficult.
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The Contemplative Pastor
My conviction is that the pastor must refuse to be shaped by the culture, whether secular or ecclesiastical, and insist on becoming a person of prayer in the community of worship. This is our assigned task; anything less or other is malpractice. – Eugene Peterson, Take and Read
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Sanctify our talents
Sanctify our talents that our minds may re-echo thy praise which resounds from the beauty of nature and the great works of love and intellect. – Northrop Frye. A fitting prayer for the new year.
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How To Be A Thankful Church
“Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect […]
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Pray for the Church in Turkey
I felt like crying after I read the report on the martyrdom of three Christians in Malatya. Three hours of horrible torture as a consequence of having a Bible study for “seekers”! I join the world-wide church in praying for the church in Malatya, that the Lord will make good come out of evil, that […]
PHILIPPINE THEO LAW GEE 