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His mission at first gained few converts and endured persecution, so he began to pray very intensely. From 1899 he began to spend entire nights in prayer to God. In 1904, he attended a conference at Sialkot. He formed the Punjab Prayer Union, the members of which set aside half an hour a day to pray for spiritual revival. In 1908 he told the ...
So We Believe, So We Pray (1951) Faith and Education (1952) Sermons Preached in a University Church (1959) Biblical Thought and the Secular University (1960) Editor, Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, 4 vols (1962) Christ and History (1963) God, Pain, and Evil (1966) The Beatitudes, A Contemporary Meditation (1968) The Power of Prayer Today ...
William Holman Hunt's 19th century The Light of the World is an allegory of Jesus knocking on the door of the sinner's heart.. The Sinner's prayer (also called the Consecration prayer and Salvation prayer) is a Christian evangelical term referring to any prayer of repentance, prayed by individuals who feel sin in their lives and have the desire to form or renew a personal relationship.
A page of Matthew, from Papyrus 1, c. 250. Prayer in the New Testament is presented as a positive command (Colossians 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:17).The people of God are challenged to include prayer in their everyday life, even in the busy struggles of marriage (1 Corinthians 7:5) as it is thought to bring the faithful closer to God.
This has been claimed to show the sufficiency of scripture – that it is all that a Christian needs to understand his faith and how to live his life. Another primary passage of Scripture that expositors point to is 2 Timothy 4:1–2. In this passage, Paul commands the young pastor Timothy to "preach the Word."
A 15th-century bishop celebrates Mass ad orientem, facing in the same direction as the people Tridentine Mass, celebrated regularly ad orientem. Ad orientem, meaning "to the east" in Ecclesiastical Latin, is a phrase used to describe the eastward orientation of Christian prayer and Christian worship, [1] [2] comprising the preposition ad (toward) and oriens (rising, sunrise, east), participle ...
John H. Eastwood (May 12, 1911 – February 13, 2007) was an American author, seminary professor, army chaplain, [1] and church pastor. He grew up in rural Nebraska and earned a Doctor of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1941. [2]
"Scripture [...] sets before us Christ alone as mediator, atoning sacrifice, high priest, and intercessor."—Augsburg Confession Art. XXI. [1]. The priesthood of all believers is either the general Christian belief that all Christians form a common priesthood, or, alternatively, the specific Protestant belief that this universal priesthood precludes the ministerial priesthood (holy orders ...