One morning this week, the text messages and emails started coming in early. One message was from a woman struggling both physically and emotionally. Another message was from a family on vacation who met a man I know. This man lost his wife earlier this...
“Your kingdom come” is the prayer Jesus told us to pray. This prayer is for the future, when the kingdom of God will come in fullness. It is for the present, that the rule of God will increase in the hearts of people, the church...
September 8 Sermon & Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:9-12 "What Kind of Life Should We Live?" 1 Thessalonians 4:9-12 by Scott Patty...
Why are “momma” and “more” among the first words a child learns? The mother has fed the child. The taste of something good, from a loving mother, stirs the request for more. King David exhorted himself, and all the faithful who would read his words, to...
On Sunday, Scott spoke about praying for the Holy Spirit. In today’s podcast Scott and Justin discuss what it means to pray “in” the Spirit. https://grace-audio.s3.amazonaws.com/WoGP/2019/2019WoGP0722.mp3...
God has given the gift of the Holy Spirit. Now, the Holy Spirit works his ministries among us in an ongoing and overflowing manner. Let us come to our good and giving Father as children in need, through Jesus the Son who is our Savior,...
Just as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are involved in our salvation, so is each person of the one living and true God involved in our praying. It is only as we read the Bible that we learn to...
This week, Justin and Scott talk about the importance of taking our focus off our method of prayer and placing it onto the person of God. https://grace-audio.s3.amazonaws.com/WoGP/2019/2019WoGP0715.mp3...
The theology on which our praying is built is that our access to God the Father is through Jesus the Son who opened the way for us. Jesus teaches his disciples to pray to the Father because he forgives sins and brings repentant sinners into...
“Let us with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” -Hebrews 4:16 There is a throne of grace where God resides and people come to pray. The doorway into this throne...
