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I know many churches this year that lost a pastor due to death, burnout, or sin. It has been tough.
Let us pray for those churches and those families.
Daniel
This Sunday at Church: Pray for a church you know who lost a pastor this year.
This Sunday at Church: Pray for a church you know who lost a pastor this year
In the West, we are not as aware of what persecution against Christians is like. Pastors get comfortable, congregants are often apathetic (largely due to ignorance), and and non-regular attenders and non-Christians rarely care enough about to if they know of it to check. Many in our culture may even come across disagreement or inconvenience and think faith is not worth it.
Extreme persecution still happens. When people are so desperate for Christ that they willingly face violence and hatred but we prefer to stay comfortable, it shows the disparity as well as why Jesus said it is so hard for the wealthy to enter the Kingdom (Matthew 19:16-29; Mark 10:17-30; Luke 18:18-30). Even most of our poor and homeless are better off than half the world.
Let us pray for Jimmy’s work and that the pastors and others he teaches remain faithful and strong in the Lord.
Daniel
This is a report from the field.
Ministry Travels lesson: Forced to live in Prison Restroom but privileged to preach the Gospel
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.
James 5:16, CSB
God’s love for us is expressed through forgiveness, and He calls us to confess our sins even to each other so that we may join in Hisbloving work and bring healing to our relationships, our thoughts, our emotions, and our bodies.
“I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.”
John 13:34, CSB
We love God, we love the people of the world with God’s love, and we love His Church even more with God’s love. We know we are His of our love for the Church grows.
Let us pray for Jimmy during not only this prep time but continually. He spreads the gospel and helps train others to do so.
Daniel
This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: Pray for my preparation to teach Biblical Theology next month.
This Sunday: Pray for my preparation to teach Biblical Theology next month
“I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.”
John 13:34, CSB
The power of Christ moves in us by the Holy Spirit, helping us love His Church with the same selfless, sacrificial love He shows us.
Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every hindrance and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us
Hebrews 12:1, CSB
The power of Christ moves in us by the Holy Spirit to make us more Christlike, and He works through the saints of old and today, through the Scriptures, stories of faith, and building each other up and encouraging each other to continue growing in godliness.
I have been grateful to see a mixed collection of people helping clean after chirch meals. Our hospitality team is mostly older folks, but there are many in their 30-40s. Many youth often help out, too.
Let us be grateful in all things.
Daniel
For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Grateful for those who clean up after Church meals.
This Sunday at Church: Grateful for those who clean up after Church meals
This Sunday at Church: Talk to someone in their 90s.
This Sunday at Church: Talk to someone in their 90s
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord will be praised.
Proverbs 31:30, CSB
Outward appearances are not as important as the righteousness that comes from God, whether as a person or as the Chirch as a whole.
a simple man of God 