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by Pastor Curt on January 24, 2012
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Acts, Bible, gospel, John Wesley, prayer, priorities
Sunday’s message is now on the web. You can listen to the audio here. We have now completed the New Year’s emphasis on Godward priorities in prayer and the Word. Part three focused on the word of His grace and the importance of regularly putting ourselves under the reading and hearing of the gospel. Oh [...]
by Pastor Curt on January 11, 2012
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Paul Miller, prayer, spiritual disciplines
I continue to feel like God is using Paul Miller’s book A Praying Life in significant ways in my spiritual journey at the top of this new year. That’ true for a variety of reasons, one of which has to do with the balance of his approach between a kind of prayer-without-ceasing-lifestyle approach to intercession [...]
by Pastor Curt on January 10, 2012
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Missions, North Korea, Operation World, prayer
I meant to do this post weeks ago. The holidays and a cruddy cold took care of that notion. Still, anybody who reads a newspaper or watches the news knows that North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-Il slipped into eternity in December. His son, Kim Jong-Un has succeeded him as the new ruler of one of [...]
by Pastor Curt on January 9, 2012
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Bible, gospel, prayer, priorities
Yesterday’s message from Acts 20:17-38 is now on the web. You can listen to the audio here. Here’s how I summed up this second installment of what has become a three-part New Year’s mini-series: Given grave threats to the church’s wellbeing, what it needs most is leaders and followers alike who focus on ultimate priorities [...]
by Carissa VanDalen on December 20, 2011
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communication, encouragement, love, Missions, prayer, witness
I regret to admit that my generation has really lost the art of writing a creative and personal letter. My peers and I remember learning to write letters and having pen pals, but we also remember when email was invented (for me, during middle school). Though we have adopted new forms of communication that are [...]
by Pastor Curt on November 1, 2011
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comfort, exhortation, friendship, masculinity, prayer, promises
Last Saturday’s Oxford Club discussion in Richard Phillip’s The Masculine Mandate may have been the best yet. We tackled chapter 11, Men in Friendship. Phillips argues that biblical masculinity starts with a commitment to our wives and children to work and keep (see Gen. 2:15), but it doesn’t stop there. Meaningful relationships with other godly [...]
by Pastor Curt on October 6, 2011
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followership, leadership, membership, New Building, participation, perseverance, prayer
On Sunday I shared what I believe OGC needs from Nancy and me and the rest of our officers and their spouses. For the next two years, arguably among the most strenuous in our history, the church needs us to stay the course. OGC needs us to persevere through the hard work, the late hours, [...]
by Pastor Curt on September 26, 2011
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church, listening, pastoring, prayer, preaching
Nancy Leigh DeMoss has written a helpful blog post for those who regularly submit themselves to the means of grace that is the preached word. I particularly appreciated this pre-service exhortation at the top of her list: Pray for your pastor as he prepares for Sunday. Pray that his schedule would be free from unnecessary [...]
by Pastor Curt on September 20, 2011
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Digo, Missions, prayer
We are determined. We will seek God for spiritual breakthroughs in our adopted people group, the Digo. You may not be able to attend a prayer meeting, but you can pray on your own. For help in knowing what and how to pray I give you this agenda from last night’s concert of prayer: Digo [...]
by Kelly Simpson on September 14, 2011
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Altar, Journaling, Ordinary, prayer, Quiet Times, Sacred
Today my coffee table made me cry. No, I didn’t stub my toe on it while walking past. And no insensitive message was carved into its surface. I cried because of what this table means to my soul. I sat staring in awe at our old, worn, chipping coffee table. Its underside has crayon scribbles [...]
