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- Ephesians: Together in Christ 10
- Fight for Joy! 8
- Fighting Fear with FEAR 6
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- Heartbeat 5
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- Joy Full 20
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- Living for Jesus as the Nation Heaves 2
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- Praying For... 5
- Press Pause 4
- Rethinking Suffering 6
- Share a Meal With Me 2
- Speak! 3
- Stories of a Kingdom 10
- Strange Encounters 3
- The Doctor's Cure 17
- The Final Countdown 27
- The Last Words of Jesus 8
- The Story of (Your) Life 12
- The Story of Jonah and God's Relentless Love 5
- Transitions 6
- Truth Be Told 5
- Upside Down Christmas 3
- Visions of Hope 6
- Visions of a King 4
- Welcome Home 5
- What If? 2
- Which Kind of Parenting is Best? 5
- Worth the Wait 3
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- Blessing 1
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A Kingdom of Persistent Prayer
Kyle Kauffman
Our lives in this world are full of mystery. We often cannot understand why God doesn’t always answer our prayers, especially when we perceive the thing we are praying for is a good thing. It’s easy for us to give up praying or to doubt God’s goodness. Jesus knew this would be the case. And so he told a parable that can encourage us to persist in praying. We find that one of the ways we display our faith is by continuing to pray and trusting God to do what is right. We find that God is pleased with us as we pester him in prayer. Because He is a God who loves to be “bothered” by his people.
Luke 18:1-8
Advancement
Kyle Kauffman
The gospel is never meant to be a treasure that we simply hang onto. It is meant to be the good news we also offer to the world. The gospel will not advance without people proclaiming the gospel. But we should be just as aware that the gospel will not advance without us praying for the advance of the gospel. (We want to see what God did at Keystone this week in us spill out into our communities. To that end we should pray that God would use us to advance the gospel in our surrounding areas).
Colossians 4:2-4; Ephesians 6:18-20; 2 Corinthians 4:4-6
Knowledge
Kyle Kauffman
We are constantly accumulating new information. Whether it is in reading, observing, talking, or just simply reflecting, we are people who live according to what we already know and make adjustments in our lives based on new knowledge. Sadly, knowledge has often come to simply be associated with knowing certain facts. Knowledge is meant to be so much more then knowing mere facts. Knowledge is meant to shape and impact the way that we live. Knowledge for the Christian should lead to love, trust, and obedience. How often do we pray for this type of knowledge? Our prayers should be directed to growing in knowledge, not so that we can simply be smarter, but so that we can live a life of worship and a life pleasing to God.
Colossians 1:3-14
Growth
Kyle Kauffman
As a parent, one of your great desires is to see your kids grow up and mature. As great as it is to have young kids, no one wants to see their kids remain young forever. We want to see kids grow into mature adults. In the same way, we should want to grow as Christians. We should want to mature and become more and more like Christ in how we think, in how we feel, in how we speak, and in how we live. This is God’s ultimate goal for us – to be conformed to the image of Jesus. How often does this goal show up in and shape both our prayers for ourselves and for others? We should pray for God to complete the work he began in us by helping us to become more like Jesus.
Philippians 1:3-11
Power
Kyle Kauffman
Prayer is an acknowledgment of our weakness and God’s power. It’s a recognition that we are dependent people and a recognition that God is capable of doing anything. While we tend to naturally know that, how often do we pray for God’s power to be at work in us and in others rather than simply for his power to be at work in changing circumstances? God has incredible power to work in our lives. And we should pray for Him to unleash that power in order to strengthen us.
Ephesians 3:14-21
Hope
Kyle Kauffman
Hope is an incredibly powerful thing in our lives. It has the ability to shape our outlook day-by-day. It can shape how we go through our lives. It can strengthen us to walk through the most difficult times. It can sustain us when we are tempted to give up. In short, hope has the ability to make a massive difference in your life. Yet how often do we pray for hope both for ourselves and for others? If hope is such a powerful thing in our lives, we should pray that God will fill us with hope. We should pray for a hope that is centered on God. We should pray for hope that is clear, powerful, and unwavering for both ourselves and other people.
Ephesians 1:15-23
Reason for Joy
Kyle Kauffman
As we go through life our circumstances change from day-to-day. There are moments where it’s easy to have joy because everything is going well. And there are moments where it’s difficult to have joy because nothing seems to be going well. Yet if we believe in the gospel we have reason for joy in any and every circumstance we face. We have a joy in Christ that can both transcend our circumstances and transform how we face our circumstances. This doesn’t mean that joy will not be intermixed with sorrow and sadness. But it means as we fight to have joy in this life we will always have good reasons for joy because of Jesus.
1 John 5:14-21