Each morning of the Queensland Assembly there’s a time of prayer. At 7.00am people gather to sing, hear a devotion and spend time in prayer together. Then on to breakfast. (And maybe a coffee) It is a well attended meeting, and the subsequent sessions of the Assembly demonstrate its value.
A curious modern situation: churches that focus on the Bible(though not necessarily reading the Bible, but that’s another post) when they meet , but not on corporate prayer. Megan Hill points out how historically anomalous this is, and how counterproductive in mission: In 1646 John Eliot, a minister in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, began preaching …
Greg Beale speaks about the importance of Scripture memorisation and the help that it is to prayer. May you gather for worship in a place where the Scripture will be read and laid to heart, not absent or used as a bridge between worship items. The transcript: What keeps me going in my daily devotions …
From Scotty Smith’s prayer/blog Heavenward: The Once-and-For-All-ness of Jesus’ Single Sacrifice for Our Sins Under the old covenant, the priest stands and ministers before the altar day after day, offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take away sins. But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for …
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