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Holy Week has arrived! But in the midst of the business of daily life, it could be easy to let Easter sneak up on us without much thought, preparation, or meditation. Despite its centrality, we can sometimes treat it as an afterthought or just another Sunday. However, the events we remember during the Easter season are of pre-eminent importance for the Christian (I Corinth...

BACK TO TWELVE PRAYER POINTS CJ Mahaney | Acts 1:12-26 | 4.3.22 These written prayers are intended to fuel your meditation on this passage and your enjoyment of God in prayer Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away. And when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were stay...

"Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing." John Piper "The forty days which Jesus spent on earth after His resurrection constitute an important part of His life and teaching. We usually do not pay enough attention to this. But the moment we attentively survey what Jesus said and did during those forty days, we detect that these shed an entirely ...

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...