9:50 AM Would you like to pray more but don’t know how? John Hughes suggests a simple technique called glancing prayer. 9:45 AM John Derbyshire thinks that America is the last Christian nation. 8:52 AM Nice note from someone who watched yesterday’s service over the Internet: Pastor Ray, I just wanted to write to you today t…
7:27 AM Gordon MacDonald revives and reclaims the mostly-forgotten concept of the call to the ministry. In another generation, we challenged young people to consider the call to vocational Christian ministry. MacDonald points out (correctly, I believe) that that concept was lost in the egalitarian 60s and replaced with the …
CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? by Ray Pritchard Last Tuesday night I spent an exciting hour with our Power Connection junior high ministry. They invited me for the annual “Stump Pastor Ray” question night. Because they gave me the questions in advance, I was better prepared than usual, but …
Sermon Series: Ponder This - 200310:30 PM Props also to the Bradshaw Bruins of Florence, Alabama, who defeated perennial 6A powerhouse Hoover tonight in the first round of a season-opening tournament in Huntsville. Congrats to Megan Pritchard who scored six points before fouling out in the fourth quarter. I know all this because my brother Andy (Megan’s fa…
12:51 PM Quick renovation update: The workers have kicked it up a notch this week. Taping and bedding on the enormous south wall of the gym is nearly complete. Stonework continues in the new portico. I couldn’t get upstairs because of scaffolding but I can hear the sounds of construction on the second story of classrooms an…
7:08 PM YWAM offers some wise advice on sharing Christ with Muslims. One fascinating excerpt:We must pray for Muslims to have dreams and visions. Many individuals and some whole villages in certain Islamic countries are receiving supernatural visions or dreams of Jesus that have led to their conversion.I have heard other Ch…
9:35 PM I spent an exciting hour tonight with our Power Connection junior high ministry. They invited me for the annual “Stump Pastor Ray” question night. Because they gave me the questions in advance, I was better prepared than usual, but they still tricked me on a very easy question: “What’s the shorte…
9:19 PM Very special renovation update … When our church building on Madison Street burned down in 1977, we lost track of the cornerstone (laid in 1921) for many years. Don Gerig helped us locate it in the mid-90s. For years we leaned it against the west wing—hoping to do something with it someday. I showed it …
Contemporary headlines regarding the persecuted church are juxtaposed against frivolous comments of Christians who don’t care and can’t be bothered about the plight of their suffering brothers and sisters around the world.
Sermon Series: Ponder This - 200311:27 AM I’m typing this note from my office at church near the end of the third worship service. This is a rare “day off” for me since Dr. Scott Hafemann is speaking on “Led Unto Death” in all of our worship services as part of World Focus Weekend. Since I’m not preaching today, I’ve had lots of extra time to chat …