2:13 PM Thousands are asking, “How long until the Pastor’s Stroll?” Answer: Only 8 days. It all starts at 7:45 AM on Thanksgiving with a continental breakfast followed by the Praise and Prayer service in the Dining Room. The joggers get to run with Pastor Davis, the more-sedated types can do the Pastor’s Stroll with me …
3:49 PM Barb King writes from New York with some helpful thoughts on prayer:I looked at the referenced article on glancing prayers and wanted to share with you something that my friend Susan does. We used to own a brown van and every time she saw a brown van on the road she would say a quick prayer for the Kings. She tries …
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 …