Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.14.07 in Churches, Uncategorized
Today I preached in the morning and evening services at the First Baptist Church of Tupelo. When I arrived, I learned that they were voting on calling a new pastor in both morning services. As we waited for the 8:30 AM service to start, there seemed to be a noticeable spirit of anticipation that was somewhat different from …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.13.07 in Uncategorized
This week I’ve been reading a fine new book by J. I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom called Praying: Finding Your Way From Duty to Delight, and along the way I’ve been thinking about the challenge of writing about prayer. Or preaching about prayer. It’s easy to fall into one of two traps. Either you make the re …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.11.07 in Sermons, Uncategorized
We have just posted a new sermon on the website:Do Not Neglect Your Spiritual Gift
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.10.07 in Sermons, Uncategorized
At the Passion 07 conference in Atlanta last week, John Piper preached a remarkable message with a remarkable title: How to Deal With the Guilt of Sexual Failure for the Glory of Christ and His Global Cause. The title brings together several themes that at first glance seem unrelated—guilt, sexual sin, the glory of Christ …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 12.25.06 in Uncategorized
At the moment things are peaceful in my corner of the world. I am sitting at one end of a large wooden dinner table and Marlene, Linda and Martha (Linda’s mother) are working on a jigsaw puzzle I picked up in Lancaster, PA, in Amish country, during our visit to Lancaster Bible College in October. Each year I give Mar …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 12.5.06 in Uncategorized
I am writing this note from Word of Life Inn in Schroon Lake, New York. Marlene and I have been here since Friday night for the Local Church Ministries Annual Staff Conference. I’ve spoken twice, Marlene spoke to the ladies, and we did a Q&A together. Later today I speak to the men. After I give my final message t …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.27.06 in Uncategorized
This morning I am speaking at the Birmingham Baptist Pastors Conference. Each year the Southern Baptists set aside time for their January Bible Study, focusing on different books of the Bible. Last year it was Nehemiah; this year it is the letters of John, known in the English Bible as 1 John, 2 John and 3 John, generally r …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.23.06 in Uncategorized
This is Day 1 of our ten-day trek that takes us from MS to AL to PA to NY to IL to AL and back to MS. Right now we are staying at the guest apartment in the Presidential Manse at Lancaster Bible College. The drive from Albany to Lancaster took about six hours, a little longer than expected because we made a wrong turn and e …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.20.06 in Uncategorized
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 …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.15.06 in Uncategorized
Here is the newest sermon in the series The Transformed Life:Swimming Upstream
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