God’s Plans & Our Prayers

Thomas Overmiller We ask many questions about the correlation between God’s plans and our prayers. Our answers to these questions can easily step off the knife-edge balance of Bible truth into reasonable logic or a defense of a particular theological system. Stepping back away from the finer points of this debate and taking in the…

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Make Time to Pray

Doug Wright Just before Jesus walked on water the disciples had participated in the “feeding of the 5000” in Bethsaida. When the bread and fish were eaten and the fragments gathered, Jesus “made his disciples get into the boat, and go ahead of Him to the other side, while he sent the multitude away” (Matt.…

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A Plea For Prayer Meeting

Wally Morris How many churches still have a Prayer Meeting during the week? I am referring to a church-wide assembly where believers of all ages meet to review prayer needs and then pray about those needs. Prayer Meeting has been replaced by a “mid-week service”, childrens’ ministry, teen ministry, singles ministry, and other activities. Some…

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Supplications, Prayers, Intercessions

Charles Mellring When this writer first retired from fulltime pastoring—made necessary by my wife’s deteriorating health—she and I undertook intercession as our continuing ministry. Our daily agenda included (and some days was dominated by) prayer for others. It pleased God to promote her to glory in 1996. With additional opportunity (much less time now spent…

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Prayer God Answers

Jim Oesterwind We all have a desire to pray so that we see God working continuously in our lives and answering our prayers. Yet I venture a guess that most of us remain unsatisfied with our prayer lives. There is a plethora of books that teach us how to pray effectively. But a close look…

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The Eclectic Web–2013/2/11

The links are piling up in the inbox – time to offer once again some interesting and even intriguing links found in our mad scramble around the World Wide Web. I hope you browse through them, some of them are really worth your attention. (You’ll have to be the judge of which ones!)

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Choosing the Good Part

Don Johnson Luke 10.38-42 Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. 39 And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word. 40 But Martha was cumbered about much…

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Windows: Developing Spiritual Muscles

Dave Pennington Hardly a day goes by for the average individual without at least some emphasis upon health needs. Exercise, vitamins, and healthy food help develop and maintain good physical condition. Certainly such personal choices should be commended. How much more commendable it is when God’s people develop and maintain spiritual disciplines. For “bodily exercise”…

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