A Monday afternoon tweet by Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, received sharply negative responses from several United Methodist tweeters. At 4:19 p.m. Eastern Time, Mohler tweeted: “Join me in praying that the General Conference of the United Methodist Church will hold firm for biblical standards of sexuality.” Mohler apparently was referring to [...]
Archive for the ‘Prayer’ Category
Palm Sunday: A prophetic portrait of spiritual awakening
Posted in Prayer, Preaching, Revival, Sermons, tagged Audio on March 30, 2012 |
Steve Hawthorne, director of the prayer ministry Waymakers, offers interesting insights about the event we call Palm Sunday, which this year is celebrated on April 1. He notes that in the days leading up to the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem, Jesus had “instigated a movement of hope throughout the towns and villages of the entire [...]
Terry Teykl on becoming a ‘Presence-based church’
Posted in Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Holiness, Prayer, Revival, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on May 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The following commentary is by Terry Teykl, author of The Presence-Based Church, My Most Wanted: 40 Days to Pray for the Lost, and Pray the Price: United Methodists United in Prayer. An elder in the Texas Annual Conference, Dr. Teykl is a “prayer evangelist,” traveling across the U.S. and around the world encouraging churches to [...]
The 2011 National Day of Prayer
Posted in Prayer on May 5, 2011 |
Today marks the 60th Annual Observance of the National Day of Prayer, with prayer gatherings in communities across the nation. Although particular days of national prayer have been observed since America’s earliest history, a formal a nationwide annual observance began only in 1952, following the passage of a law signed by President Harry S. Truman [...]
St. Patrick: A great missionary
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Missions, Prayer on March 17, 2011 |
St. Patrick’s Day is widely observed, but in our time few people know anything about Patrick himself. Patrick was not born in Ireland, as is widely supposed, but in what is now England. As a teenager, in about the year 430, he was captured by Irish soldiers and sold into slavery. While enslaved, he became [...]
Prayers of biblical hope during Lent
Posted in Church Renewal, Prayer, Revival on March 8, 2011 |
Beginning tomorrow and continuing through Palm Sunday on April 17, many Christians throughout the U.S. and around the world will be observing a 40-day season of prayer, roughly coinciding with the season of Lent. Here are the areas of prayer focus over the next several weeks, as described in the prayer guide, Seek God for [...]
A prayer of hope for the New Year
Posted in Discipleship, Doctrine, Prayer on December 31, 2010 |
The Apostle Paul pronounced this blessing on the Church at Rome: “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, until, by the power of the Holy Spirit, you overflow with hope” (Rom. 15:13). LORD God, give followers of Jesus such a full measure of joy and [...]
A Christmas prayer
Posted in Doctrine, Prayer, tagged Audio on December 23, 2010 |
Father, we stand in awe of what we celebrate. How can it be that the all-sufficient God of the universe became a helpless child resting in a feed trough? How can it be that the divine Word reduced Himself to unintelligible sounds? How can it be that the hands that once sculpted mountain ranges, now [...]
An Advent prayer
Posted in Prayer on December 10, 2010 |
Originally written as an opening prayer for an Advent season worship service: Father God, since childhood Christmas has evoked in us all manner of feelings: joy, excitement, anticipation. But as our understanding of Christmas has grown, what happened at that first Christmas now causes us to stand amazed — that you, the sovereign Lord of [...]
