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Getting young people to pray is a good thing, yeah? Dave Buster and Ed Sowden are two young punks who are keen to get other young punks praying. Sounds good. They’ve just begun a ministry called THE TIMOTHY STRATEGY. Worth checking out.
Go read more about it on fervr: tts.fervr.net. Join the group, pray, and encourage other young punks to pray. (You can also hook up on twitter).
A Call to Spiritual Reformation by DA Carson is gold. In this very practical book, Carson uses the priorities from Paul’s prayers in the New Testament as a framework for fuelling intimacy with God through prayer. Before he gets into Paul’s prayers, he spends the first chapter with some wisdom that he’s learnt over the years from the wisdom of others.
Here are his 7 lessons:
Rick Warren from Saddleback Church in California, prayed this morning at Barack Obama’s Inauguration. He prayed some really good stuff. Here’s a vid of the prayer:
(h/t JT’s blog – warning lots of stupid comments!) EDIT: Mark Driscoll has some good stuff to say. Here’s the transcript:
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“We need to talk to God during the hard times in life. Jesus’ example at Gethsemane should be for us a demonstration that we can talk to Him in the darkest of times in life. This clip is taken from the sermon Pray Like Jesus, which can be found in full at marshillchurch.org“
Mark Driscoll sermon video clip is below:
The Apostle Paul says to follow him as he follows Jesus. When Paul (then known as Saul) became a Christian, his priorities were radically changed. Prayer matters to Jesus. Prayer matters to Paul.
Christians know that they should pray, but sometimes we just don’t know what to pray. Paul is a great example of someone who prayed. We can learn from how he prayed and we can learn much from the content of his prayers.