Pure Church

JT posted this update from the Village Church on the pathology report that Matt and Lauren Chandler received yesterday: Dear church, In t...

This year, the Lord seems to be speaking to me these words over and over: "treasure and ponder." Last week, a brother sent me a d...

Just learned that Matt Chandler suffered a major seizure last Thursday. CT reports a mass was found on his frontal lobe. He's seeing ...

Colin provides this helpful, pithy prayer: “Lord, keep me from saying words that later need recalling; Guard me, lest idle speech may from ...

Today I begin sermon preparation for Gen. 28:10-29:30. What a joy it is to look long into God's word with the privilege of then sharing ...

Last night we had a moving time of prayer during our evening service. We prayed for a number of items and issues, but two threads emerged t...

HT: Between Two Worlds From Paul Tripp’s chapter, “War of Words,” in The Power of Words and the Wonder of God , pp. 43-44 (Justin's emph...

My wife forwarded to me this brief piece of parenting wisdom from Mary Kassian: I want to share one of the prayers that I prayed from time ...

There’s a holy, high vocation Needing workers everywhere; ’Tis the highest form of service, ’Tis the ministry of prayer. No one need stand i...

Here , "A Conversation Between Prayerful and Prayerless" (HT: JT ). And here , "Winning Battles Through Prayer."

"Free and democratic elections" is a phrase typically volleyed about when some country is under military occupation or a "reg...

Justin Taylor posted a great video on a theology of suffering and these requests from Joni Eareckson Tada at his blog: Friends who have see...

Because I have a congregation that loves me more than I deserve, I am often asked by them: "how can I pray for you?" I've trie...

In April 2002 to be exact. Tim is up to some good cliffhanging posts this year. This one is about how he left the work-a-day world and beg...

As you go into 2009, how are you praying? Got the nerve yet to ask God for what you really need and really long for and what would really d...

I thought this was funny.... Laugh; it's Wednesday.

Dan Phillips has some crisp and helpful comments .

An often overlooked truth is that a fruitful Lord's Day begins--not on Sunday morning--but on Saturday. Preparation for the Lord's D...

The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it d...

Father, Won't you send your Son today! Much is left unsaid. Many are left unloved. Work is undone. Even so, Lord, come! Your coming...