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This Sunday: If your church has a church security team let the pastor know you are grateful

I am personally grateful for the security team, because for several months I was the security team, setup/teardown team (with occasional volunteers), and cleanup team. I also had to occasionally teach Kids Sunday School, help with A/V, and even preach. That does not make for strong security. We finally got a man who saw the need, got extra training, and now we have a good team in place. (We also have teams for everything else, though I help in several areas still.) I get updates and questions from the team, but I can sit more on Sundays. We certainly live in a dangerous world, but God is good and has His people equipped.

Daniel

This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: If your church has a church security team let the pastor know you are grateful.

This Sunday: If your church has a church security team let the pastor know you are grateful

This Sunday at Church: Pray for the church’s prayer meetings ahead of time

We launched our Sunday “prayer corner” nearly three years ago, only the elders taking turns being the primary contact. A year and a half ago, we started a midweek prayer group. It actually took us a while to have this same thought as today’s exhortation. Today, our deacons lead the prayer corner with other volunteers, and midweek is facilitated by volunteers. (We elders still participate in both! I rarely make the prayer meeting due to youth group being at the same time.)

Pray for congregational prayer.

Daniel

For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Pray for the church’s prayer meetings ahead of time.

This Sunday at Church: Pray for the church’s prayer meetings ahead of time

This Sunday at Church: Pray for Christians in the West as Biblical Values are deem as Hate Speech

We may be seeing a revival before our eyes, but like the early Church in Acts and later, we keep facing people telling us to stop speaking in this Name, or at least say everything the same way everyone else is.

May we be bold and seek our King, knowing He set the example and has called us to boldly proclaim the gospel, especially when the world hates us.

Daniel

This Sunday at Church: Pray for Christians in the West as Biblical Values are deem as Hate Speech.

This Sunday at Church: Pray for Christians in the West as Biblical Values are deem as Hate Speech

This Sunday: Pray for any assassin Copycats be stopped before anything happens

This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: Pray for any assassin Copycats be stopped before anything happens.

This Sunday: Pray for any assassin Copycats be stopped before anything happens

This Sunday at Church: Pray for people in America to trust in Jesus

For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Pray for people in America to trust in Jesus.

This Sunday at Church: Pray for people in America to trust in Jesus

This Sunday at Church: Pray for a church you know who lost a pastor this year

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

Ministry Travels lesson: Forced to live in Prison Restroom but privileged to preach the Gospel

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

VerseD: Matthew 7:7

“Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you.”

Matthew 7:7, CSB

God loves us and wants what’s best for us. He calls us to seek Him first and foremost, and He will meet all our needs.

VerseD: 2 Chronicles 7:14

and my people, who bear my name, humble themselves, pray and seek my face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14, CSB

God loves us and calls us to repentance and to love Him. May we humbly accept our need for God and seek Him, praying for others out of love for God and their souls.

This Sunday: Pray for my preparation to teach Biblical Theology next month

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