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January 2012 blog entries
A Little More, A Little Less
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Sunday, January 1
“Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land” (Exodus 23:30).Little by little.That’s how most of us grow spiritually. Now that a new year has dawned, most of us are making lists (mental or written) of things we’d like to accomplish in 2012. Surveys show th...
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Safer Than a Known Way
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Monday, January 2
On Christmas Day 1939, King George VI of England gave a brief radio address to his troubled nation. England was already at war with Germany. Soon all of Europe would be plunged into the horror of brutal, unrestrained warfare.Hoping to calm the troubled hearts of his countrymen, the king offered words of encouragement as the storm clouds gathered ov...
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Take Up Your Cross
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Wednesday, January 4
“If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me” (Matthew 16:24).Every man has a “cross” to bear. It is always “his cross,” a unique and very personal set of circumstances.Carrying that cross requires a personal decision, an initiative, an act of the will.What sort of man ...
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Daily Bible Listening
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Friday, January 6
Lately Marlene and I have started a new adventure in daily Bible listening. That’s right. Daily Bible listening.For a long time if you wanted to listen to the Bible, you had to buy a big set of CDs or DVDs. With the advent of smartphone apps, you can now listen to the whole Bible, read alone or read dramatically with music in the background.&...
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Let’s Take an Alaskan Cruise
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Tuesday, January 10
This summer I’m going to be the speaker for an Alaskan cruise sponsored by Camp Forest Springs in Westboro, Wisconsin. We’ll depart from Seattle on Friday, June 29 and return to Seattle on Friday, July 6.We’ll visit Juneau, Skagway, the Tracy Arm Fjord, and Victoria, British Columbia. We’ll enjoy luxurious accommodations ...
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Shine, Tebow, Shine
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Saturday, January 14
He’s faster than a speeding bullet.He’s more powerful than a locomotive.He can leap tall buildings in a single bound.But can he beat the New England Patriots?The experts say no, unanimously, loudly, repeatedly. And one supposes that they are right. The experts make their money being right most of the time. That’s why they are call...
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3.26.2012
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Tuesday, January 17
Mark this date on your calendar: Monday, March 26, 2012. That’s the date of our first radio broadcast into mainland China. At 7 PM on March 26, from the studios of Trans World Radio on the island of Guam, we will begin our thrice-weekly broadcast to China. When it’s 7 PM in China, it’s 6 AM in Chicago (you can do the math for…
Remembering the 50 Million
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Sunday, January 22
It’s hard to think clearly about 50 million.It’s a number so big that we don’t really know what it means. Take one baby and ponder that child for a moment. Look at his eyes, his ears, reach out and touch his tiny fingers. Hold that baby in your arms and think what a miracle it is that even one baby should enter the world.&nbs...
Imperfect
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Saturday, January 28
Anyone out there feeling a little bit “imperfect” today? Thank you, I see that hand being raised. Mine too. Here are some encouraging words for “imperfect” people from Charles Spurgeon: Do you not feel in your own soul that perfection is not in you? Does not every day teach you that? Every tear which trickles from your e...
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So That
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Monday, January 23
A few years ago my friend Robert Schuler shared with me one of the most important insights on prayer I’ve ever heard. Over supper one night Robert told us how he prayed:"When I pray I always try to include the phrase ’so that.’ I heard a guest preacher mention that in a sermon several years ago, and I’ve been doing i...
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A “So That” Prayer for China
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Tuesday, January 24
After Robert Schuler attended one of our Chicago home meetings for the new China partnership with Trans World Radio, he wrote me a note containing his “so that” pray for China:"I’ll be praying every day between now and 3/26 - that God would prepare the hearts of the Chinese people, that He would bring attention to the broadc...
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Many Will Pray for China on March 26
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Wednesday, January 25
We’ve had excellent response to our call for 1000 people to join us in prayer at 6 AM on Monday, March 26. At that hour the first-ever Keep Believing China broadcast will beam into mainland China from the island of Guam. Here are some responses:From a friend in another country: “I will get up early on March 26 and pray for the First Bro...
“The Lord Hates Me”
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Thursday, January 26
“You grumbled in your tents and said, “The LORD hates us” (Deuteronomy 1:27). Obviously the Lord hates you. That’s why he worked miracles for you in Egypt.That’s why he parted the Red Sea for you.That’s why he gave you manna and quail.That’s why he gave you water in the desert.That’s why he came t...
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Report from India
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Thursday, January 26
7:30 AM Friday Mumbai, India Hard to believe but we are already on Day 4 of our trip to India. It took two days to get here, then we spent yesterday recuperating from jet lag (which by the way is very real) at a hotel in Mumbai. Josh and I came to India at the invitation of Benny Mathews, president of Alpha Ministries For those who do...
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The Exploding Sermon
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Saturday, January 28
We started with a real bang this morning.Benny said he would pick us up at the hotel about 9:30 AM. When he didn’t arrive at the appointed hour, we remembered his advice that in India you need to be like water, ready to “go with the flow.” As we stood outside the hotel, Josh and I watched the never-ending stream of people walking,...
Preaching in the Big Tent
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Sunday, January 29
On Sunday I spoke twice at the big tent that the local church had erected. To get there we wound our way through the city until we suddenly turned onto a compound owned by the Methodist Church. In the morning I preached to a few hundred. At night the crowd was considerably larger. Benny arranged things so that Josh and I arrived at the tent af...
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India Pastors Conference
Posted by Ray Pritchard on Tuesday, January 31
For the past two days we’ve been meeting with these pastors for a time of encouragement. They all come from the same general region of India. As you can see from the photo, most of the pastors are young, with perhaps a year of training, and nearly all of them pastor multiple congregations. Some pastor four churches at a time. Today they ...
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