In His Presence ...

Thursday, March 26, 2009

An Amazing Message Needed for Today

Friendship and Freedom

Wow, we had a great time in our school of prayer tonight seeing people set free and delivered from years of strongholds of the enemy. God is doing a great and mighty work in our midst and I praise Him for that. I also pray that God would protect them tonight and keep them in His Truth ... that sets people free.

Also, last Sunday's service is now online here. And the YouTube sermon (Loving Them Through Friendship) is also available in the upload above. Continual thanks to Dan for the conversions and uploads :) I really appreciate all your service for OEM.

Friday, March 20, 2009

The ESV Study Bible

I've been using the ESV Study Bible for the past several months and I must say I've been impressed. The notes and articles contained in this study Bible is second to none - high quality and solid scholarship presented in concise readable sections. I've been eating it up.

And I've also been getting very hooked on the ESV translation for personal reading and study. I love the close connection it keeps with the original text. The ESV Study Bible recently won the top award for the Christian Book Awards. The Dallas Morning News also covered this achievement. Check out the video above for a brief intro and you can also access the Bible and its notes online here. A great investment to help aid your studies and grow in the Word.

Mark 9:14-29 Loving Them By Trusting in God

Friday, March 13, 2009

Teaching Again

I just started teaching my preaching course at Torch Trinity Graduate School of Theology and it feels good to be back in the classroom. I love the idea of helping people grow and develop as preachers who will love the Word and be faithful in the delivery and proclamation of God's truth to the nations. And I really mean to the nations. One of the things I love about Torch is the international diversity that's represented in that place - literally people from all over the world who are training there to go back and be a blessings to their homeland that is need of Christ. What an honor and privilege it is to serve God's people in this way.

Please pray that God would give me wisdom to teach these students well and that these students would be used by God to bless all the nations of the world with His Gospel. And please also pray that our class would be a place of worship, so that all that we learn would trigger a heart

Thursday, March 12, 2009

A New Season

It's been simply amazing what God has been doing in our ministry these days. His Spirit is being poured out in power every time we gather. People are getting healed from cancer and diseases, people are being freed from spiritual strongholds and there is a HUGE hunger for more of God through prayer. God's been showing up in powerful ways and He's definitely doing a new thing with this pouring out of new wine for OEM. Our prayer school on Wednesdays has also been soaked in the presence of God. I cannot wait until the fullness of what God is hoping to do is released in our ministry.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

2 Corinthians 10:1-6 Loving Them Through Intercession

Monday, March 09, 2009

Praying for First Baptist Church of Maryville

Encouraging you all to lift up a prayer for Pastor Fred Winters' family and church (First Baptist Church of Maryville). Pastor Winters was shot during a Sunday morning worship service and is survived by his wife and 2 young children. The spiritual warfare even in America is getting more 'in your face' these days. Let's pray for greater protection to cover over all God's people.