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A Thanksgiving prayer

Posted in Doctrine, Prayer on November 24, 2010 |

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 [...]

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A United Methodist pro-life prayer guide

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Doctrine, General Conference, Politics, Prayer, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , on January 21, 2010 |

Friday (Jan. 22) marks the 37th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’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 [...]

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Podcast: Terry Teykl on ‘Praying for the Lost’

Posted in Evangelism, Podcasts, Prayer, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on December 18, 2009 |

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 “prayer evangelist,” traveling across the U.S. and around the world encouraging  churches to develop and maintain [...]

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An Annual Conference prayer guide

Posted in Prayer, United Methodist Church, tagged , on June 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The following prayer points will help you intercede for this year’s gathering of your Annual Conference. Thank God for His faithfulness to us, even though we haven’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 [...]

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Bishop Timothy Whitaker: A prayer for Pentecost Sunday

Posted in Bishops, Doctrine, Prayer, United Methodist Church, tagged , on May 29, 2009 |

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’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 [...]

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The Global Day of Prayer

Posted in Discipleship, Holiness, Missions, Prayer, Revival, tagged on May 27, 2009 |

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’s Global Day of Prayer. This international prayer event represents one of the most remarkable spiritual movements of our time. The Global [...]

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A Good Friday prayer

Posted in Doctrine, Prayer, Sermons, tagged on April 10, 2009 |

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, “God was reconciling the world to himself in [...]

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Praying for those in government

Posted in Prayer on March 13, 2009 |

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 “prayer points” for interceding for government leaders: that leaders will be examples of righteousness to our society; that they will experience God’s wisdom in their deliberations; that they [...]

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A Lenten focus: ‘Prayers of biblical hope’

Posted in Church Renewal, Evangelism, Prayer, Revival on February 18, 2009 |

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’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. [...]

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Bishop Mike Watson: Spiritual disciplines for the New Year

Posted in Bishops, Christian/Methodist History, Discipleship, Holiness, Prayer, United Methodist Church on December 29, 2008 |

North Georgia Bishop Mike Watson is urging United Methodists to read through the entire Bible in 2009. Every Christian should read the entire Bible. If you have never done so, now is the time to begin — and here is a plan to help you. This guide (PDF) is designed to keep your place as [...]

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A Labor Day prayer

Posted in Prayer on August 31, 2008 |

Here’s a prayer appropriate for Labor Day, from the pen of 16th-century church reformer John Calvin: My God, Father and Savior, since you have commanded us to work in order to meet our needs, sanctify our labor that it may bring nourishment to our souls as well as to our bodies. Make us constantly aware [...]

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