Monthly Archives: September 2013

• “Why Me, Lord?”

  Posted on September 30, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    “Why me, Lord?” tends to be a rhetorical question.  Or maybe it’s no real question at all, just a lament, like “how are you” is just a form of greeting. But when “Why me, Lord?” becomes a real question, it often carries an edge to it.  It’s spoken with an attitude.  It comes with […]

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• Growing into Houses of Prayer

  Posted on September 23, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    Our land is filled with churches that dabble in prayer.  At worst, prayer is present as a perfunctory practice, like grace before a meal or token prayer with our children before bed.  At best,  it is alive in weekly prayer meetings and the nagging sense of guilt and grief that we should be doing […]

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• Day of Prayer & Fasting

  Posted on September 16, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    The elders of my church have called our congregation to a day of prayer and fasting.  I thought some might be interested in the instructions given.  Below you will find the cover letter to a three-page prayer guide.  Most of the requests were submitted by the various ministry teams of the church. ————————– Day […]

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  Prayer Corps

  Posted on September 9, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    In a previous blog (“A House of Prayer is Built with Living Stones”), I closed with these two questions for church leaders. How can leaders train the disciples the Spirit has entrusted to them to see prayer as essential to their life and ministry rather than tangential? What can the leaders do to make […]

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• Mobilizing Ambassadors of Hope

  Posted on September 2, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    Introduction to Community Houses of Prayer Ministry Manual Our Lord Jesus Christ has called us to Himself to belong to Him and to follow Him. He has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness that imprisoned us in sin’s mastery, misery and condemnation.  He has brought us into His kingdom of light and life, […]

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