Prayer Work
Sunday, October 30th, 2011Podcast (podcast2): Download
God promises things to us that we are to trust even as He hides the details from us how He is going to bring them to pass. We trust God in His Promises because He is trustworthy. We, nevertheless, are called upon to pray for many things He promises. God calls us to pray for [...]
Read full post...A Great Wind (Jonah 1:4-7)
Sunday, October 30th, 2011Podcast: Download
“But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up. Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it [...]
Read full post...Greater Grace (Jonah 1:1-3)
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011Podcast: Download
“Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a [...]
Read full post...Entering Your Father’s Story
Monday, October 17th, 2011Podcast (podcast2): Download
How Providence and Prayer interact. God is present and cares about human suffering. God uses prayer in redemptive history.
Read full post...The Personal Side of Prayer (Psalm 119)
Monday, October 17th, 2011Podcast: Download
Psalm 119:1–176 (ESV) Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet Aleph 119 Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! 2 Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, 3 who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! 4 [...]
Read full post...The Purpose of Prayer (2 Th 1:3-12)
Sunday, October 9th, 2011Podcast: Download
“We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in [...]
Read full post...Ask Your Father Anything
Sunday, October 9th, 2011Podcast (podcast2): Download
The Creator-creature relationship solves the dilemma of the One and the Many that philosophy is unable to resolve. Our God is transcendent because He is Creator but our God is immanent because He reveals Himself in human history and most fully in His Son. God exists above the highest heaven and He also inhabits the [...]
Read full post...Helplessness: The Key to Effective Praying
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011Podcast (podcast2): Download
Christ taught in the Sermon on the mount: Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs in the Kingdom of God. This is not a status we “outgrow” as we mature but something we become more aware of as we grow in grace. Christ is our justification and our life for our Christian walk and [...]
Read full post...The Family Meal (1 Cor 11:17-34)
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011Podcast: Download
“But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part, for there must be [...]
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