Sermon Archive
Persistent Prayers
By: Pastor Rob Hamilton
Sep 20, 2009
F. B. Meyers wrote, "The greatest tragedy in life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer." Too many people never build solid prayer muscle because they give up too quickly. They toss up a feeble prayer or two, and then go their way with a shrug of the shoulders and a wistful, "It must be God's will not to give me what I wanted." Wimpy prayer warriors won't win the big battles of life.
Perfecting Prayers - Changing God’s Mind?
By: Dr. Robert Petterson
Sep 06, 2009
Theologians have wrestled with this question down through the millennia: Can prayer change the mind of God? Some might even wonder, "Why would anyone want to change the mind of a perfect God?" Abraham and Moses both argued for God to change his mind. In the case of Moses, Exodus 32:14 says that "the Lord relented" after Moses pleaded with him. But doesn't the Bible say in another place that "God is not a man that he should change his mind"? Yet, if you can't change God's mind, what's the point of persistent prayer? Perhaps prayer is about changing imperfect saints, not a perfect God.
Prayer Turned Horizontal
By: Dr. Robert Petterson
Aug 30, 2009
Jesus begins the training of his twelve disciples with his Sermon on the Mount and the Lord's Prayer. He ends their three-year training in the Upper Room. Everything he says in that Upper Room discourse with his disciples has the compelling urgency of a deathbed confession. But nothing is more critical than his words in John 13:33-34: "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this will all men know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
Perfect Prayers - Our Lord’s Pattern
By: Dr. Robert Petterson
Aug 23, 2009
Humorist Mark Twain wrote, tongue-in-cheek, that our first prayer ought to be, "Father, forgive us our prayers." In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus makes it plain that the most eloquent and passionate prayers can be totally ineffective. In fact, many prayers are offensive to God. Though they might earn the praise of men, they will never receive the applause of heaven. Nor will they arm warriors for spiritual battles yet to come. No one prayed more effectively than Jesus. If you don't want to spin your wheels on unfocused or misfired prayers, then you will want to learn from his pattern for Perfect Prayers.
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