Prayer shapes our character and in times of crisis, we reveal who we really are. As Jesus hung in agony on a Roman cross, unjustly brutalised, facing certain death, his prayers revealed who he was and defied the expectations of everyone.
How might our prayer life shape us to do the same?
In the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus enacted a part of ‘The Lord’s Prayer’, ‘Your will be done’, and he did it alone.
How can we learn to pray, trusting in God, when things are not as we would hope and we feel we are facing them alone?
In John 17, Jesus prays for his disciples to be protected from the evil one, to be full of joy, to be sanctified and to be unified.
Could he still be praying those things for us now and how might we part of the answer?
John 17 is the most revealing of all prayers: it’s a window into the intimacy shared between Jesus and his Father before the creation of the world…
Some details of things that are happening over the next few weeks and months at Salford Elim Church.
A joint Pentecost service with St James, as we celebrated this important event and prayed together that the Spirit will re-fill us all again.
A chance to get some updates and insights from Luke Sharp into all that Compassion are doing at the moment.
The most famous storm was a long one – 40 days of rain.
And one man and his family lived with the hope that one day it would cease.
His hope was not disappointed, the rains stopped and Noah and his family and the zoo he saved could live again.
But they had important lessons to learn when the sun came out again.
Jesus’ teaching about the wisdom we need to build into our lives offers us the only chance of surviving the storms that we cannot predict.
But if we build well, the houses of our lives will survive.
Some details of things that are happening over the next few weeks and months at Salford Elim Church.
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