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Resurgence
There is a resurgence that is possible. It won’t be the biggest thing on YouTube or Facebook. But it will be lifechanging for the culture.
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Maybe it IS me
“summer has ended and we are not saved”
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6 minute prayer challenge
In the short bursts of opportunity, I can’t look at them as inconvenient times any more. I need to see them as invitations in the Spirit to rise to a challenge.
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Where renewal arises
From Prophetic Lament by Soong-Chan Rah
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The hardest prayer
Sometimes the only thing to pray is, “Lord, break me.” It is incredibly hard. It grates against our pride and ego and sense of “victorious living”, etc. But this may be the best prayer. And as a result, our lack of willingness to pray it is probably what holds back genuine outpouring of the Spirit. Too often the temptation is…
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The essence of revival: raise the dead
He thought he came to preach a nice sermon, collect a small check, have a nice lunch, and then go home. He didn’t know the assignment that day was “raise the dead.”
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Where the place of revival begins
I spread my hands out to you in prayer;my soul thirsts for you in a parched land. (Ps. 143:6) Lord, you call out to us, “Are you thirsty?” Help me to create this insatiable thirst for the power of the Spirit. A longing in my heart to cry out, “Your kingdom come!” The place of revival begins where I decide…
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Fresh move of God
I love reading about past moves of the Spirit. Too often the temptation is too look at a past revival and try to predict a future movement. There is really only one thing that is predictable: prayer. If we then try to say what IS or IS NOT a revival after that, and base it solely on what we’ve read…
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Frontline Prayer
I am getting into Timothy Keller’s book Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City. I have been refreshed by the subject matter of prayer, and more specifically revival prayer. He discusses “frontline prayer,” which consists of these elements: 1. A request for grace to confess sins and to humble ourselves. 2. A compassion and zeal for the flourishing of the church…
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The end is near! Or… A revival is coming!
Two very different takes on just how Christianity is “doing” in different parts of the world show our tendency toward tribalism. In the Middle East there are dire warnings of Christianity becoming extinct in the Middle East. Meanwhile, Manhattan seems to be on the verge of a new revival! So, which is it? As Anthony Bradley points out on the Manhattan side…
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