Pray for a Missionary Right Now

Missionaries need our prayers.  Some of them carry heavy burdens that are unique to where they  invest their lives.  Would you take five minutes and pray for a GLBC missionary?

Here they are:  Adelsberger, Cropsey, Ebersole, Hayden, Herrick, Hitibran, Lowe, M&S N., Reynolds, Schmidt, D&N W., J&B T., and Zimmerman.  Learn more about our missionaries by clicking here.

Need to learn how to pray for Missionaries?  Click here.

The Lord’s Prayer (3)

One more note regarding the Lord’s Prayer from Dr. Tim Dwyer that I found helpful.  Have you ever prayed “Hallowed (or honored) be your name” and wondered what that meant?  Why is God’s name important? 

The Lord’s Prayer (2)

Another nugget from my time at Family Bible camp with Dr. Tim Dwyer.  He was speaking about the Lord’s Prayer, as I mentioned before, and specifically mentioned what it meant when we pray to “Our Father.”  Do you get a warm fuzzy feeling when you hear that?  Perhaps when we think about what it meant to a person in that context, we wouldn’t.

The Lord’s Prayer

I was at a Family Bible camp last week in Findley Lake, NY.  The morning speaker was Dr. Tim Dwyer from Roberts Weselyan College (my wife’s alma mater, BTW), who spoke for six days on the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6.  Sound boring?  It was anything but boring.  In fact, he made a point so obvious I was shocked that I had missed it before.  I’ll bet you’ve missed it, too.

Pray for a Brother in a Far Away Place

I received a letter from a missionary in a closed country (hostile to the Gospel) who asked us to pray for a brother in that closed country. Here’s the letter as translated from our missionary (places are not listed and names have been modified):

Dear Mr. & Mrs.

Pray for the Chapman Family

Make sure you pray for the Chapman family as they grieve. Here’s a brief report on the memorial service.

HT: Chris Brauns

The Lightning Bolt of Heaven

John Piper writes in his book Brothers, We are not Professionals that prayer is

“the splicing of our limp wire to the lightning bolt of heaven. How astonishing it is that God wills to do His work through people. It is doubly astonishing that He ordains to fulfill His plans by being asked to do so by us.”

Twenty-Seven Michigan Baptist General Conference pastors, missionaries, and a few others gathered to splice our limp wires to the lightning bolt of heaven and ask God