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A Guide to Prayer for Ministers and other Servants

By and others ⋅ November 20, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

A Guide to Prayer for Ministers and other Servants (Upper Room, 1983) 1982-3 was the most difficult year of my professional life, recovering from a painful divorce from the church to which we had been called a year earlier. [1] But it was also the richest, spiritually. With no other pastoral interruptions, I prayed/read while […]

Sudan

By and others ⋅ November 16, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 134 | Wed 16 Nov 2011 —————————————– SUDAN: REFUGEES BOMBED; ‘OIL WAR’ LOOMING —————————————– By Elizabeth Kendal Religious Liberty Monitoring noted in the 14 May 2010 posting: ‘There will be a massive war for control of the oil fields presently situated on the southern side of the North-South border.’ […]

Pray for the Persecuted Church

By and others ⋅ November 14, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 133 | Wed 09 Nov 2011 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER (IDOP) FOR THE PERSECUTED CHURCH Also NIGERIA By Elizabeth Kendal The security of Christians is deteriorating. In countries where Christians have long suffered discrimination and persecution, violence is escalating. Anti- Christian forces have been advancing for decades, gaining momentum […]

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER FOR PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS

By and others ⋅ November 7, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Although Sunday, November 13 is the designated 2011 International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church, Churches in Australia are invited to hold it any time from Sunday 6th to Sunday 13th November. The IDOP, which was first organized in 1996 by the World Evangelical Fellowship, has evolved into one of the largest worldwide prayer […]

Pray for the World (an evangelical perspective)

By and others ⋅ November 3, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

AUSTRALIAN   PRAYER   NETWORK   NEWSLETTER EGYPT MORE RADICALISED THAN FIRST THOUGHT MUSLIMS FLOCK TO MECCA FOR THE ANNUAL HAJJ PILGRIMAGE OVER 2,000 CHAPLAINS PROTEST HOMOSEXUAL REGULATIONS AMAZING CHURCH GROWTH IN SOUTH KOREA GOD HEA;S MUTE WHO BECOMES A CHILD EVANGELIST NOT A SINGLE PUBLIC CHURCH LEFT IN AFGHANISTAN EGYPT AMENDS CRIMINAL CODE BANNING RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION EGYPT […]

EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY and contemplation (Richard Rohr)

By and others ⋅ November 3, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Wednesday, November 2 All Souls’ Day Contemplation develops an entirely different operating system, different software where the private self is not the center of attention and interpretation. This is the  ¢â‚¬Å“grain of wheat ¢â‚¬  that Jesus says must die  ¢â‚¬Å“or it remains just a grain of wheat. ¢â‚¬  But if it dies,  ¢â‚¬Å“it bears much fruit ¢â‚¬  (John […]

Egypt

By and others ⋅ November 3, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 130 | Wed 19 Oct 2011 EGYPT: ISLAM, DHIMMITUDE & THE MASPERO MASSACRE By Elizabeth Kendal Islam is a political religion that aims to achieve dominance — demographically or through military or political conquest — so that Muslims might rule and Sharia (Islamic Law / the law of Allah) […]

Burma

By and others ⋅ November 3, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 132 | Wed 02 Nov 2011 BURMA (Myanmar): INTERESTS, SMOKESCREENS & ETHNIC CLEANSING By Elizabeth Kendal Burma has been subject to Western political and economic sanctions for decades because of its repression of democracy. However, since the mid- 1990s ascendant China has been taking Burma into its embrace, supplying […]

Pray for the World October 18, 2011

By and others ⋅ October 18, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

AUSTRALIAN   PRAYER   NETWORK   NEWSLETTER The International News will not be published next week, 24th October, due to editorial staff being at the Commonwealth Christian Assembly and the week of prayer for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth. The next edition will be published on Monday 31st October. EGYPTIAN CHRISTIANS CONTINUE TO BE […]

Pray for the World (October 10, 2011)

By and others ⋅ October 10, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

AUSTRALIAN   PRAYER   NETWORK   NEWSLETTER MIRACULOUSLY HEALED MUSLIM LAYS DOWN LIFE FOR CHRIST LEADERS IN INDIA GATHER TO ADDRESS CORRUPTION IRANIAN YOUTH OPEN TO THE GOSPEL CAMPAIGN AIMS TO PUT PRAYER BACK IN TO U.S.A. SCHOOLS GRASSROOTS ACTIVISTS SEEK TO STOP PROMOTION OF HOMOSEXUALITY IN CLASSROOMS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE PERSECUTED CHURCH CHINA EMBRACING […]

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