Pray for Church Members (Part 1)

Continuing in our quest to learn how to pray, I want to encourage you to pray for other church members this week.  You might have a long list – there are a lot of people to pray for!  But that doesn’t mean you can’t get started. Don’t pray: “God bless all the church members.”  That’s …

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Praying for Your Worship Team

Continuing in this month’s focus for our worship teams to pray fervently and specifically, I have another prayer point this week: pray for the members of your worship team. Every Sunday before we lead worship, our team huddles up, grabs a hand, prays for the person on their right, then on their left.  Prayer is …

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Pray for Your Church Staff

The prince of preachers, Charles Spurgeon, was once asked about the secret of his success and he stated, “My people pray for me.” In this month’s worship team training focus, availability – leading with presence, I want to focus on being available to one another through prayer.  Today, I want to challenge you to pray …

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Prayer for Easter Sunday

Easter is this Sunday.  Hopefully you have been thinking upon the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus a bunch.  I pray you get overwhelmed with it yet again. But many people haven’t experienced the life that can be found in Jesus, and many of those people will go to your church this Sunday since it’s …

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Midweek Starts this Wednesday!

In 1 Peter 3:12 we are told, “For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer.” What a wonderful privilege we have to be able to obtain the attention of our Savior! Prayer is a special component to the walk of any believer because it not …

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The Call in California – Reason Behind Tuesday’s Vote

I was just driving away from class when I heard James Dobson talk on the radio about Tuesday’s vote.  There was a pretty shocking vote in California where they overturned the right for homosexual marriage.  Since most people would think that California would support it, I was shocked to hear that it got stopped. I …

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Prayer Service

I know you get tired of me saying this, but I am sorry: wow, what a Sunday. I must say it again, because it just seems like week after week, our congregation is getting together to show Jesus how much we love him and it is overwhelming just to be in the room with it …

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Healer

Pretty disappointed to read this article this week: KIM WHEATLEY, CHIEF REPORTER August 22, 2008 01:10am PASTOR Michael Guglielmucci has been told by church officials to report to police, who will investigate what has happened to money raised during his cancer deception. The Australian Christian Churches told The Advertiser yesterday that it was auditing Mr …

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Life-Changing Prayer

Today was another great Sunday at North Side. So much is happening around our church this summer, that every Sunday, it is like a celebration of what God has done in our midst the previous week (um…what an interesting concept, maybe we could do that each week…). Jeff’s message on prayer was fantastic. God has …

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Make the Most of Today

Here is some more information concerning the Chapmans’ tragic loss: Maria Sue Chapman, adopted and youngest daughter to Mary Beth and Steven Curtis Chapman, was killed Wednesday night in a tragic accident in the family driveway on Wednesday evening. She was LifeFlighted to Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital but for only reasons God can explain she went …

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