by Karl Fickling | Mar 14, 2019 | Carroll Prayer Network, Ministry, Worship
The church was divided. First, it had two services. One was 100% traditional, at 8:30 A.M., on Sunday mornings. On my first Sunday as interim pastor, I found 200 aging members, in a sanctuary that sat 1,000. The service felt dead. I assumed the next service would be...
by Wade Berry | Mar 12, 2019 | Carroll Prayer Network, Scripture, Theology
Over the past few weeks, we have been talking about prayer. We have looked in the pages of the Old Testament for examples of how ancient worshipers of God prayed, and we have sought to utilize these examples to understand and enrich our own practice of prayer. Now, it...
by Wade Berry | Mar 5, 2019 | Carroll Prayer Network, Scripture, Theology
A Praying Prophet Jeremiah has often been called “the weeping prophet,” but perhaps he should also be called “the praying prophet.” Like many prophets, Jeremiah regularly asked God for guidance on behalf of others in the Israelite community (cf. Jeremiah 37 and 42)....
by Karl Fickling | Feb 28, 2019 | Carroll Prayer Network, Scripture, Theology
Energizer Bunny Praying I remember, quite fondly, several times when I got to hear Billy Kim preach. He was Billy Graham’s interpreter in Korean crusades, and he pastored the largest Baptist church in the world, at the time. I heard him on his tours as acting...
by Wade Berry | Feb 26, 2019 | Carroll Prayer Network, Scripture, Theology
A National Sensation The Prayer of Jabez (cf. 1 Chronicles 4:9-10) was a little book that became a big deal in many Christian circles about twenty years ago. It chronicled the prayer (the word is not actually used) of a mysterious man named Jabez, and this prayer was...
