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88 Days, 20 Hours, 31 Minutes, 2 Seconds
by Ray Pritchard

According to Mark’s China Blog, we leave for the Holy Land tour in 88 Days, 20 Hours, 31 Minutes, 2 Seconds. We still have room on the tour for others to join us. Here are a few of the sites we will visit:

Masada
Caesarea
Beit She’an
Nazareth
Bethlehem
Capernaum
Mount of Olives
Jordan River
Gethsemane
The Golde …

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Changing Your Mind
by Ray Pritchard

Here is the newest sermon in the series The Transformed Life from Romans 12-16:Changing Your Mind

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Gulf Shores
by Ray Pritchard

This morning I’m writing this note from beautiful Gulf Shores, Alabama. We left Tupelo yesterday about 12:30 PM with Alan, Linda Hale and Paula DeCanter, driving down Highway 43, bypassing Meridian, then cutting across a country road south of Citronelle, Alabama, catching I-65 to Mobile, then across the bay to Highway …

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One Year Later
by Ray Pritchard

Today is the one-year anniversary of our move from Oak Park to Tupelo. At this moment a year ago, I was sitting in the front seat of a rented truck with Craig Hammond and his son Cuyler as we tooled down I-57. Marlene and Megan drove behind us in our car. As I look back on that morning, I realize that I didn’t feel an …

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Pastors and the Struggle of Prayer
by Ray Pritchard

Phil Miglioratti has just posted an interview I did with him on Pastors and the Struggle of Prayer. Here is the heart of the interview:All of us as pastors struggle with prayer. And that struggle itself is not sinful. It is a reminder that we are made of flesh and that something in us will fight against prayer because praye …

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China Clippings
by Ray Pritchard

Anthony Bollback has posted the October issue of China Clippings. This month’s edition focuses on the spread of the gospel along the ancient Silk Road, part of the movement to take the gospel from China into the Muslim countries to the west and ultimately back to Jerusalem, where it all began 2000 years ago.

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Married Couples Now a Minority
by Ray Pritchard

Here’s a significant statistic every church leader should know about . . . Married couples are now a minority in the U.S. For the first time ever, less than 50% of American households are made up of married couples. Here is the money quote:The numbers by no means suggest marriage is dead or necessarily that a tipping …

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Another Perspective on the Perfect Church
by Ray Pritchard

A friend sent this in an email and I thought it was so good that it ought to be shared with everyone. My friend hopes for . . .1) A church that prays for and supports their Pastor and Board (not because they are perfect)…but in obedience to God.2) A church where forgiveness is more important than being right.3) A ch …

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In Search of the Early Church
by Ray Pritchard

Over the weekend a received a question from a friend in Atlanta asking me about the role of elders in the local church. That led me to revisit a series of sermons I first preached in 1992 called In Search of the Early Church when our congregation in Oak Park was considering a new constitution that would establish a board of …

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Swimming Upstream
by Ray Pritchard

Here is the newest sermon in the series The Transformed Life:Swimming Upstream

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