“I pray that Your Spirit would unveil things hidden,
Hidden from man since the world’s first foundation.”
21 Prayers, p. 16
One Way to Look at It
Don’t Turn Into That
“The New Testament warning, delivered to the Gentiles, is [to] not become like your persecutors. Do not turn into your adversary. If you turn into what you hate, it indicates you only thought you hated their sleek arrogance of power. You didn’t hate it—you envied it.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 84
Bleeding Authority
“Use this worship service, I pray, I beseech You
To unmask all falsehood by Your Word of authority,
Authority that bleeds from the side of the gospel.
I pray that the word of Your gospel would reign.”
21 Prayers, p. 14
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Work in Us Now
“I pray that the text this morning would be
Immediate, forceful, and present to all.
Work in us now Your mysterious grace.”
21 Prayers, p. 11
The Principle of Pursuit, the Trump Reprieve, and the Place of New St. Andrews in All of This
Introduction: In the history of warfare, many a victory has been thrown away through a failure to pursue. Sometimes the victory has been thrown away entirely and other times the victor has settled ...
Cuts Both Ways
“If you meet a Jew who will not admit that the Jews of the first century were filled with a hot, persecuting zeal, and were the worst of the worst, then you are talking with someone who is refusing spiritual wisdom. And if you meet a Christian who is unwilling to admit that the pogram at York in AD 1190 was a Godforsaken hot mess, then you are talking with someone who is also failing at life.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 83)
Pulling Them Over
“As we gather our ropes and our spiritual tackle,
Considering all of the idols before us—
Mars, Aphrodite, and Mammon, and Gaia,
Bacchus, and Vulcan, and all of the others—
I pray You would take up our worship this morning,
And make it surpass the worship of gods—
Tumble them, topple them, make them fall over,
And all in the presence of all of their worshipers,
So that they might know that You are the true God.”
21 Prayers, pp. 5-6
Jew and Judean
“If Ioudaios is translated as ‘Jew,’ this means a Jew is being contrasted with the Gentiles. If it is translated as ‘Judean,’ the primary contrast is with the Galileans—although it could also be in contrast with other groups as well: Samaritans, say. The parallel is not exact, but we do something similar with the word ‘Yank’ or ‘Yankee.’ It can mean New Englander as opposed to other Americans, or it can mean Americans over against the rest of the world.
American Milk and Honey, pp. 69-70