Tag: prayers
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Community Prayers – Prayer for the Ephesians
I found myself reading through the daily lectionary texts for today’s date and feeling drawn in by the Ephesians reading for today. The writer of Ephesians writes this prayer for the community in Ephesus, and it got me thinking about what community prayers I might have for our church. Ephesians 3:14-21 14 For this reason I…
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God’s Faithfulness & the Faithful – Festival of Homiletics 2018: Part 5
Start at part 1 of this series on experiences from the Festival of Homiletics 2018 here! I have nearly 30 pages of bullet points written from those five days. And there is one word that comes up on nearly every single page. The theme for the week as I mentioned before was “Preaching and Politics”, but…
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Awkward Prayers – My Experiencing with “Stretch & Pray”
Therefore glorify God in your body. 1 Corinthians 6:20b When I was on retreat in January, one of the things that I discovered was a book titled “Stretch and Pray” by Murray D. Finck. And to be honest, when I peeked at the agenda for that day and saw “Stretch and Pray” on the schedule,…