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 …

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Recently we’ve been sorting through lots of items at MGPC and finding an embarrassing amount of material that was pretty much junk when we put it into storage and now simply looks weird that we’ve still got it. Just south of Penola there’s something called Greenrise Lake. It’s always completely devoid of water, even when …

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