Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Man's Great End (a Puritan prayer)


A Prayer from The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers.

Killing Your Pet Sins - by Thomas Brooks


A short but powerful video of the words of Thomas Brooks (1608-1680) an English Puritan preacher who writes on the need to mortify or kill your sin based on Paul's writing to the Colossians from Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:  - Colossians 3:5

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Don't Let Prayer Become a Boring Empty Habit - by C. H. Spurgeon



This is part 1 of a sermon on prayer by C. H. Spurgeon.  The beginning text is Mark 11:24 which reads, "Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." I found it very convicting because many times our prayer time can become a empty habit rather than a joy where we petition God by Faith. 

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Prayer Needs for Salvation and for those who have Strayed from the Lord


Salvation of the United States
Salvation of China
Salvation of North Korea
Salvation of the Muslim world 

All who reject Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior
All who have never heard the Gospel
All atheists, agnostics and scoffers


All Christians that we may advance in our sanctification 

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

A Prayer for the Unconverted (2)

An old school prayer from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer that is definitely not politically correct.

O Merciful God, who hast made all men, and hatest nothing that thou hast made, nor wouldest the death of a sinner, but rather that he should be converted and live; Have mercy upon all Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Hereticks, and take from them all ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word; and so fetch them home, blessed Lord, to thy flock, that they may be saved among the remnant of the true Israelites, and be made one fold under one shepherd, Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen. 

Definition 



  • Jews - The Jewish people who reject Jesus as Messiah and as the Son of God. 
  • Turks - A referance to the Islamic Ottoman Empire and the religion of Islam they followed.
  • Infidels - One who rejects Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. 
  • Hereticks - Professing Christians or more correctly false Christians who teach or preach doctrines that contradict cardinal doctrines of the Faith (Trinity, Virgin Birth of Christ, Incarnation, Deity of Christ etc..)