My soul has been helped throughout the last few days by the following quotes:
On preaching:
The pulpit calls those anointed to it as the sea calls its sailors. And like the sea, it batters and bruises and does not rest. (Bruce Thielemann)
On prayer:
A pastor who feels competent in himself to produce eternal fruit — which is the only kind […]
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Prayer is a struggle for most men, and yet manliness and prayerfulness go together. So why is it so important for men to pray? Obviously it is necessary for both men and women to pray. But even though prayer is not exclusively manly, I think it is especially manly.
This past summer I taught a message titled […]
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Yesterday I wrote that a man’s most difficult struggle is prayer. While prayer is a weakness for Christian men and women, at least three New Testament passage reveal a gender specific relationship between men and prayer.
Titus 2:6 (connected with 1 Peter 4:7)
When I addressed the ladies at the beginning of our Biblical Manhood/Womanhood series I went […]
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A man’s most difficult struggle is not dealing with a specific sin (like anger or lust or pride), though sin is a large part of what makes this struggle so hard.
Each and every godly man has this “struggle” in common. We read in Scripture that men like Abraham, Isaac, Moses, Samuel, Elijah, Elisha, David, Solomon, Ezra, […]
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Colin Adams at Unashamed Workman collected some apropos quotes concerning pastors praying their way into the pulpit.
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Certain jobs are impossible without suitable tools. Nails are not well driven by tissues and breaking up concrete with a toothpick is ill-advised. So ministry without prayer must likewise be frustrated.
In Lectures to My Students, Charles Spurgeon advises pastors of their particular duty in chapter 3, “The Preacher’s Private Prayer.” As I […]
It is a privilege to fast and pray in “explicit agreement and visible union of God’s people in extraordinary prayer for the revival of religion” at the 2006 Snow Retreat. Every year is a spiritual battle and we are desperately dependent on the Spirit for triumph.
In a similar vein to last week, my focus […]
Tuesday is the day our ministry has set aside for “explicit agreement and visible union of God’s people in extraordinary prayer for the revival of religion,” especially as it relates to the 2006 Snow Retreat. I brainstormed a bit in preparation for our prayer meeting this afternoon and decided to focus my requests on the […]
You can’t be a Christian if you don’t pray. I’m not talking about prayer being a work that you do that saves you or sanctifies you. I am not talking about something else that you need to do to make God happy. I am simply looking at it from the standpoint of standard Christian practice. […]
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