Prayer
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The rise of persecution continues. Any excuse will do. From the Assemblies of God New Service: We have received reports from AG missionaries in Niger that, in spreading violence related to the attacks in Paris, Muslim extremists attacked and burned four AG churches and one parsonage in the town of Niamey and an AG church… Read more
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Last year we had prayed for this man who was stricken and near death. Today he is on the mission field. God is so good! MSR15 // Steve Sullivan from MDC.AG on Vimeo. Read more
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I can still remember parts of a sermon I heard many years ago from Loren Cunningham, founder of YWAM, on the passage Matthew 8:28-34. The message was called “Swine over the Savior.” The people of that region seemed to have “settled in” with the idea of the demoniac men running wild. They could at least… Read more
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We face quite a few changes for our church this year. They are incredibly wonderful opportunities brilliantly disguised as frightening choices. It is a time to clearly hear the voice of the Spirit. We must be tuned in. I have invited our congregation to walk slowly through Matthew 5-10 in these next few weeks to… Read more
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I am working my way through The Great Divorce by C S Lewis. I’ve finished McGrath’s biography of Lewis, so reading Lewis more in historical context is slightly more helpful. I’m just not a great reader of “literature.” I love reading about Lewis, but reading Lewis is just plain slogging at times. The stories bring to life… Read more
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As I looked ahead this past week to 2015 and went through some good questions that help set up the next part of my journey, the one thing that kept showing up was the deep need for fasting and prayer. The engine to drive all that lies before me in 2015 is fasting and prayer. The… Read more
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Two words the Lord gave me for our church and for my own life going into 2015: 1. Transformation 2. Multiplication Transformation is best summed up in these words of Jesus (from the Common English Bible): 17 From that time Jesus began to announce, “Change your hearts and lives! Here comes the kingdom of heaven!” (Matt. 4:17)… Read more
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As a pastor, the temptation is huge to “fix” people. They have a problem. They lay it out to you. You fix it. It is incredibly interesting to me that Jesus never “fixed” Peter. He let Peter know that Satan had asked permission to sift him as wheat, and Jesus said he would PRAY for… Read more
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I absolutely believe in raising up the next generation. I also believe the next generation has much to learn. Especially in prayer. I look at the example of Simeon and Anna in Luke 2. Old people! No one paying attention to them! And on that day in the Temple they held the very promise of… Read more
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