by Jacob D. Gerber | Jan 29, 2014 | Bible, Preaching
Post Series on Luke 18:1-8: God Wants You to Beat Him Down with Prayer How to Seek Justice When You are Also Guilty Do You Believe in God’s Love Enough to Pray? On Monday, we began to look at the parable of the persistent widow (sometimes called the parable of...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Jan 28, 2014 | Bible, Preaching
Post Series on Luke 18:1-8: God Wants You to Beat Him Down with Prayer How to Seek Justice When You are Also Guilty Do You Believe in God’s Love Enough to Pray? The parable that Jesus tells in Luke 18:1-8 is about prayer. Specifically, Jesus tells the parable...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Jan 27, 2014 | Bible, Preaching
Post Series on Luke 18:1-8: God Wants You to Beat Him Down with Prayer How to Seek Justice When You are Also Guilty Do You Believe in God’s Love Enough to Pray? In Luke 18, Jesus tells a parable about prayer. It is not clear whether Jesus told the parable to his...
by | Mar 1, 2013 | Church, Preaching, Theology, Worship
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the danger of neglecting Word and prayer for ministers of the Gospel as an affirmation and response to Kevin DeYoung’s insightful post about how easily we neglect the Word in and prayer in ministry. A further danger exists,...
by | Feb 27, 2013 | Books, History, Theology, Worship
A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life in a Year: [John Owen (1616-1683)] called believers to “ask [for the Spirit] daily of the Father in the name of Jesus Christ. This is the daily work of believers…to ask him of the Father as children do of their parents...