Reading Time: 4 minutes “Is there a church that has no story to tell about prayers at the Lord’s table?” William S. Boice asked in 1984. “We of the New Testament order often find ourselves criticized by our denominational brethren of a more liturgical custom who find our somewhat casual approach to Communion to be nearly offensive. It bears thinking about.” . . .
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Hunting Ministry Teaching Kids about Faith, God, Prayer
Reading Time: 5 minutes Jake Ratliff and Josh Hawkins met at Tollesboro (Ky.) Christian Church and bonded over their love of the outdoors and hunting. After noticing many young people lacked dads or father figures, they developed Hunt for the Gospel to help teach young people about hunting, God, and living with Christlike character. . . .
Prayers Needed After Attacks on Christians in Northeastern India
Reading Time: 2 minutes Prayers are needed for Christians in and around the city of Imphal in India, near the border with Myanmar, where more than two dozen Christian churches have reportedly been burned down in recent days. . . .
January 22 | It Requires Prayer and Fasting
Reading Time: 4 minutes Once work on the temple altar and temple itself were completed, it was time to get the exiles’ lives in order. Ezra the great Bible teacher led the way in this through prayer and fasting.
Harvest Prayer Ministries President Dave Butts, 69, Dies
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dave Butts, 69, who started Harvest Prayer Ministries with his wife, Kim, in 1993, died Saturday morning, Nov. 26. He served in full-time prayer ministry for almost 30 years.
Lall Requests Prayers as Persecution Increases in India
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ajai Lall, a well-known and respected Christian leader in India and the United States, requests prayers for the difficult situation he and other Christian leaders are facing in India.
‘A Focus of Prayer’: Compass Celebrates Baptism Rebound in a Visual Way
Reading Time: 3 minutes A wall at Compass Christian Church in Chandler, Ariz., tells the story of the rebound in baptisms the megachurch has experienced thus far in 2022.
May 29 | Two Stories about Prayer
Reading Time: 4 minutes The subject matter of the parables was prayer, but the context concerned the faith and humility necessary for always being ready for the return of the king.
UKRAINE: 31 Days of Prayer and Fasting
Reading Time: 2 minutes On March 1, I joined IDES’s “31 Days of Prayer and Fasting.” Each day I receive an email from IDES with prayer points to cover for Ukraine that day. I encourage you to join me and many others.
Pray for Peace in Ukraine
Reading Time: 3 minutes I met Oksana Kuklinowsky when I was preaching in several churches in Ukraine. Her husband, Valeri, was minister of the church in Zdolbunov, in eastern Ukraine. . . . Several years later, Valeri was killed in a tragic accident, leaving Oksana to raise their five children. . . . I tell you all this because I need to put a face, or faces, on Christian families in Ukraine. . . .
PrayerFast Partners Needed (Plus News Briefs)
Reading Time: 3 minutes ICOM and TCM International Institute are partnering for a PrayerFast initiative to encourage and equip Christ followers to pray and fast regularly for the Great Commission. Plus briefs about the Stone-Campbell Journal Conference (April 8-9), Team Expansion, MACU, and more.
Throwback Thursday: Ordained by a Grandmother’s Prayer (1978)
Reading Time: 6 minutes “I cannot remember when I first decided to enter the ministry,” James B. North wrote in 1978. “It seems the decision has always been with me.” Later in life, he learned the rest of the story. (Dr. North died earlier this week.)
TCM-sponsored PrayerFast Set for Saturday (Plus News Briefs)
Reading Time: 3 minutes TCM is sponsoring its second PrayerFast event from 10 a.m. to noon this Saturday. Individuals and groups are invited to register and participate via a link at TCM’s website. Also, stories from Hope International University, Central Christian College of the Bible, and more.
PrayerFast: A Global Call to Fasting and Prayer
Reading Time: 7 minutes Could This Key Focus of ICOM Over the Next Four Years Restore the Missing Power of Pentecost?
Christian Ministries in Haiti Request Prayer in Aftermath of Quake
Reading Time: 3 minutes Christian church-affiliated ministries in Haiti are requesting prayer in the aftermath of a powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake the struck that island nation Saturday.
PrayerFast Focuses on Growing Deeper and Reaching Out
Reading Time: 3 minutes Early this year, TCM International developed an initiative called PrayerFast to encourage and celebrate prayer and fasting movements around the world.
Harvest Prayer Ministries Starts PrayerU (Plus News Briefs)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Harvest Prayer Ministries has started PrayerU, an online school of prayer for individuals, small groups, and churches.