2016-05-15, 22 Monterey Living Hope

This web page holds the worship notes for my two weeks preaching in Monterey, CA. This web page is also available by typing bit.ly/mlh1605 into any browser. The first 3 letters, "mlh", stand for Monterey Living Hope.

2016-05-15, Pentecost Sunday

Prayer Time Teachable Moment

Paul’s prayers in the epistles are not on escaping or dealing with the massive problems the people in Ephesus and other churches experienced. In Eph 1.15-23, Paul prays for God to enlighten the hearts of his readers so that will know God better. (Other similar scripture possibilities to make this same point are Phil 1.9-11 where Paul prays for Christ to make his home in the readers’ hearts, empowering them with inner strength, and Phil 1.9-11 where Paul prays for the readers to grow in knowledge and understanding of what is really important so they can live holy lives and bear the fruit of righteous character.) We must have these perspectives if we are to face life in any circumstance. (concept from Timothy Keller's book: Prayer, pgs. 19-22)

For more prayer tips like this one, check out Prayer-Time Teachable Moments.

Sermon: God Comes Down

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2016-05-22 Trinity Sunday

Prayer Time Teachable Moment

This time, I'm using a recent post from my website: Pondering Prayer.

Sermon: Facing Outward

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