Preached on Sunday, June 19, 2022.As he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath, a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for over eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, he called out to her, “Woman, you are free of …
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Prayer of the Week
This week's prayer is from English poet, teacher, High Church Anglican cleric and Roman Catholic convert, and major metaphysical poet in 17th-century English literature, Richard Crashaw (1613–1649). If you choose to pray this prayer, perhaps do so not only for your own Christian community (or yourself) but on behalf of our Christian neighbours to the …
“Dwell on these things”
Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Finally brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable—if there is any moral …
Trusting God in the Dark
Lord, God of my salvation,I cry out before you day and night.May my prayer reach your presence;listen to my cry.For I have had enough troubles,and my life is near Sheol.I am counted among those going down to the Pit.I am like a man without strength,abandoned among the dead.I am like the slain lying in the …
A Prayer for the Crisis in Ukraine
Here is a prayer for the crisis in Ukraine by Pete Greig: Father God, King of all nations, I cry out to You now for the people of Ukraine and especially those who are grieving, dying or displaced. Lord of Lords, rescue those who are vulnerable from the hands of their enemies that they may …
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