Midweek Podcast | Prayer and the Church
Welcome to The Midtown Midweek, a resource to further equip you to be with Jesus and become more like Him as we continue the conversation from Sunday’s teaching.
This week we’re joined by Midtown Lexington pastor Michael Bailey as he unpacks more of 1 Timothy 2:
To resources to explore this passage on your own, make sure to check out our 1 Timothy series page (Downtown, Lexington, Two Notch)
Questions? Shoot us an email.
Quotes/Resources:
“Intercession is spiritual defiance of what is, in the name of what God has promised. Intercessors visualize an alternative future to the one apparently fated by the momentum of current forces. Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present. History belongs to the intercessors, who believe the future into being. Even a small number of people firmly committed to the new inevitability on which they have fixed their imaginations can decisively affect the shape the future takes. These shapers of the future are the intercessors.”
-Walter Wink, The Powers That Be
“Don’t seek to develop a prayer life — seek a praying life. A ‘prayer life’ is a segmented time for prayer. You’ll end feeling guilty that you don’t spend more time in prayer. Eventually you’ll probably feel defeated and give up. A ‘praying life’ is a life that is saturated with prayerfulness — you seek to do all that you do with the Lord.”
-Dallas Willard
“Prayer is easy only for beginners and for those who are already saints. During all the long years in between, it is difficult. Why? Because prayer has the same inner dynamics as love and love is sweet only in its initial stage, when we first fall in love and again its final, mature stage. In between, love is hard work, dogged fidelity, and needs willful commitment beyond what is normally provided by our emotions and our imagination.”
- Ronald Rolheiser, “Maturity in Relationships and Prayer”
“The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift up our hearts to God.”
- Jim Cymbala
“Prayer is where I do my best work as a husband, dad, worker, and friend.”
-Paul Miller, A Praying Life
1 Timothy | Prayer and the Church
Midweek Podcast | The Gospel vs The Law
Welcome to The Midtown Midweek, a resource to further equip you to be with Jesus and become more like Him as we continue the conversation from Sunday’s teaching.
This week we’re joined by our church planting resident, Tim Olson as he unpacks more of 1 Timothy 1:1-7, 3:14-15.
To resources to explore this passage on your own, make sure to check out our 1 Timothy series page (Downtown, Lexington, Two Notch)
And to learn more about how to pray and serve our upcoming church plant, Citizens Church in Charlotte, NC, check out their website.
Questions? Shoot us an email.
1 Timothy | The Gospel vs The Law
Midweek Podcast | Defend the Truth
Welcome to The Midtown Midweek, a resource to further equip you to be with Jesus and become more like Him as we continue the conversation from Sunday’s teaching.
This week we’re joined by our church planting resident, Tim Olson as he unpacks more of 1 Timothy 1:1-7, 3:14-15.
To resources to explore this passage on your own, make sure to check out our 1 Timothy series page (Downtown, Lexington, Two Notch)
And to learn more about how to pray and serve our upcoming church plant, Citizens Church in Charlotte, NC, check out their website.
Questions? Shoot us an email.
1 Timothy | Defend the Truth
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