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		<title>Prayer for UM General Conference from prominent Southern Baptist provokes sharp responses</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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: &#8220;Join me in praying that the General Conference of the United Methodist Church will hold firm for biblical standards of sexuality.&#8221; Mohler apparently was referring to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19525&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palm Sunday: A prophetic portrait of spiritual awakening</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;instigated a movement of hope throughout the towns and villages of the entire [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19273&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terry Teykl on becoming a &#8216;Presence-based church&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 08:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=17560&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 2011 National Day of Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 10:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=17908&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A word from Mr. Wesley: Holiness in singleness</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2011/04/29/word-from-mr-wesley-glorifying-god-in-singleness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is part of a monthly series that presents selections from the writings of John Wesley, co-founder (with his brother Charles) of the Methodist movement. Below is an excerpt from Mr. Wesley&#8217;s pamphlet, Thoughts on a Single Life, first published in 1743 and reissued with minor changes in 1784. As presented here, two paragraphs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=17007&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>St. Patrick: A great missionary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St. Patrick&#8217;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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=4690&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prayers of biblical hope during Lent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=4209&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>United Methodists praying, speaking, and marching for life</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2011/01/19/methodists-praying-marching-for-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday (Jan. 22) marks the 38th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court&#8217;s decisions in the cases of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. Taken together, the two rulings (authored by Justice Harry Blackmun, a United Methodist) effectively voided dozens of state laws aimed at protecting unborn children from abortion. Since then, abortion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=16132&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A prayer of hope for the New Year</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2010/12/31/prayer-of-hope-for-the-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Apostle Paul pronounced this blessing on the Church at Rome: &#8220;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&#8221; (Rom. 15:13). LORD God, give followers of Jesus such a full measure of joy and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=3160&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas prayer</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2010/12/23/a-christmas-prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=3094&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Advent prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=9946&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Thanksgiving prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This classic prayer of thanksgiving is adapted from the Book of Common Prayer: Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you’ve done for us. We thank you for the splendor of the whole creation, for the wonder of life, and for the mystery of love. We thank you for the blessing of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=9756&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A United Methodist pro-life prayer guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday (Jan. 22) marks the 37th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court&#8217;s decisions in the cases of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. Taken together, the two rulings (authored by Justice Harry Blackmun, a United Methodist) effectively voided dozens of state laws aimed at protecting unborn children from abortion. Since then, abortion doctors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=10202&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: Terry Teykl on &#8216;Praying for the Lost&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/12/18/podcast-terry-teykl-on-praying-for-the-lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final podcast of our fall season features prayer leader Terry Teykl, author of Acts 29, The Presence-Based Church, and Pray the Price: United Methodists United in Prayer. Dr. Teykl, an elder in the Texas Annual Conference, is a &#8220;prayer evangelist,&#8221; traveling across the U.S. and around the world encouraging  churches to develop and maintain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=9958&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Annual Conference prayer guide</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/06/11/an-annual-conference-prayer-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following prayer points will help you intercede for this year&#8217;s gathering of your Annual Conference. Thank God for His faithfulness to us, even though we haven&#8217;t always been faithful to Him. (Ps. 100) Pray for God to open hearts and bring unity based on Jesus. (John 17:22-23; Ps. 133) Repent of anything in your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=6794&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bishop Timothy Whitaker: A prayer for Pentecost Sunday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 16:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following prayer by the Rev. Tim Whitaker was published in the January/February 2001 issue of the The District Beam, newsletter of the Virginia Conference&#8217;s Norfolk District. At the time, Mr. Whitaker was serving as superintendent of that district. On Feb. 28, 2001, he was elected to be a bishop and was assigned to United [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=6518&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Global Day of Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 04:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stopping in for a brief visit last week at a United Methodist Church in Indiana, I was pleased to see a poster in the narthex indicating the congregation would be participating in this Sunday&#8217;s Global Day of Prayer. This international prayer event represents one of the most remarkable spiritual movements of our time. The Global [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=6465&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Friday prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Good Friday we commemorate that day nearly 2,000 years ago when the way of salvation was opened. Jesus the Messiah, the One who knew no sin, became sin for us and suffered the death we deserved. As the Apostle Paul puts it in 2 Corinthians 5:19, &#8220;God was reconciling the world to himself in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=5334&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Praying for those in government</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2009/03/13/praying-for-those-in-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are difficult days for leaders at all levels of government. The Lenten season prayer guide, Seek God for the City (see post here), suggests these specific &#8220;prayer points&#8221; for interceding for government leaders: that leaders will be examples of righteousness to our society; that they will experience God&#8217;s wisdom in their deliberations; that they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=4678&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Lenten focus: &#8216;Prayers of biblical hope&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many Christians Lent has been transformed from a season focused on self-denial to a season focused on passionate praying for the fulfillment of God&#8217;s purposes in the world. The catalyst for that transformation is Seek God for the City, a prayer guide published yearly since 1996 by Waymakers, a ministry based in Austin, Texas. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=4049&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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