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Category: prayer

And all the people said… [inaudible mumble]

February 14, 2021 ilfordipc

I probably said it at church today about 15 times. You might have said it slightly less. It’s a “religious”…

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Posted in: prayer, Worship services

A Prayer for the Plague

January 12, 2021 ilfordipc

This is the prayer we used on Sunday morning, taken from the Book of Common Prayer. It sounds quite different…

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Posted in: prayer, Worship services

Day of Prayer & Fasting

May 18, 2020 ilfordipc

What’s the aim? To spend the day fasting and giving some deliberate time to private prayer, to household prayer, and…

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Posted in: fasting, piety, prayer, repentance

Should we mind “mindfulness”?

September 18, 2019 ilfordipc

“Mindfulness”. It’s been embraced by Google, Transport for London, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Parliament. It’s encouraged by the NHS. And now our…

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Posted in: Buddhism, children, Creator/creature distinction, meditation, mindfulness, prayer

Don’t draw the wrong conclusion from unanswered prayer

April 10, 2019 ilfordipc

Here is something that puzzles me and I expect puzzles you too. Ever since we’ve started prayer meetings in Ilford,…

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Posted in: Ilford, prayer, Spurgeon

Answered Prayers Guaranteed

February 28, 2019 ilfordipc

Yesterday at prayer meeting, James recommended the book: Matthew Henry’s A Way to Pray (also called A Method for Prayer)…

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Posted in: Bible, Bible reading, God's will, prayer

A “full diet” of prayer

January 31, 2019 ilfordipc

At men’s breakfast recently, we were thinking about men leading in prayer. One of the ideas I talked about was…

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Posted in: full diet of prayer, prayer

Not at the prayer meeting – presumed dead

December 4, 2018 ilfordipc

Acts 2:42 tells us: “They devoted themselves to… the prayers”. What could that kind of devoted commitment to the prayers…

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Posted in: prayer, Spurgeon, the prayer meeting

The Prayer Meeting

October 30, 2018 ilfordipc

A striking feature of the church in Acts is the disciples’ commitment to praying together: Acts 1:12-14, “All these with one…

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Posted in: Banner of Truth, prayer, the prayer meeting

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