Archives for March 2022

BEHOLD HIM THERE PRAYER POINTS CJ Mahaney | Acts 1:1-11 | 3.27.22These written prayers are intended to fuel your meditation on this passage and your enjoyment of God in prayer And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by t...

"In this state of exaltation Christ continues the work which He began on the earth. There is a great difference between the work which Christ achieved in His humiliation and that which He accomplishes in His exaltationHe did not at His ascension enter upon an unproductive rest but instead now applies the fulness of His achieved salvation to His church." Herman Bavinck "He...

AN ADVENTURE LIKE NO OTHER PRAYER POINTS Jeff Purswell | Acts 1:1-8 | 3.20.22 These written prayers are intended to fuel your meditation on this passage and your enjoyment of God in prayer. In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to t...

THE LAST SONG PRAYER POINTS C.J. Mahaney | Psalm 150 | 3.13.22 These written prayers are intended to fuel your meditation on this passage and your enjoyment of God in prayer Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens!Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness!Praise him with trumpet sound; praise...

Did you get a chance to hear Jeff's Sunday Class on Baptism last week? If not, you can find the outline and audio recording here!...

"Today-as in every generation-it is stunning to watch the shift away from God as the all-satisfying gift of God's love. It is stunning how seldom God himself is proclaimed as the greatest gift of the gospel. But the Bible teaches that the best and final gift of God's love is the enjoyment of God's beautyThe best and final gift of the gospel is that we gain ChristThis is th...

PRAYER POINTS C.J. Mahaney | Psalm 2 | 3.6.22These written prayers are intended to fuel your meditation on this passage and your enjoyment of God in prayer Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, "Let us burst their bonds apart and...

"The private world of the first psalm opens out into the public world of the second; the personal is followed by the cosmic; in airport terminology, one is 'domestic' and the other is 'international.' Psalm 1 talks the everyday language of wisdom books like Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, while Psalm 2, raising its eyes to world affairs beyond the control of ordinary people, sp...

TO BEHOLD HIS FACE PRAYER POINTSC.J. Mahaney | Psalm 11 | 2.27.22These written prayers are intended to fuel your meditation on this passage and your enjoyment of God in prayer To the choirmaster. Of David. In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, "Flee like a bird to your mountain, for behold, the wicked bend the bow; they have fitted their arrow to the st...

"What is being described is a situation where the fabric of society and presumably the religious life of the community are being undermined. Moral and spiritual values are at stake. The upright in heart and all that they stand for are under attack by the wicked."Robert Davidson "All the old certainties are gone, nothing is secure and stable; you can't tell how things will...