Into the Pray

Hello!

Welcome to Into the Pray and thank you for listening along. You can also watch along here.

Today's midweek session with Dave Brennan of Brephos begins to lift our thinking above the realm of the natural and normal into the transcendent and eternal.

“A world without windows” is how sociologist Peter Berger describes the secularized view of the world.  He also calls it the “prison of modernity.”  Bultmann the theologian, as much as Sagan the scientist, is an inmate of this prison.  Both agree that a modern scientific view of the cosmos requires reality to be interpreted as a closed system of natural cause and effect—a system without signs of transcendence.

The renewal of Christian witness and mission requires constant examination of the assumptions shaping the Church’s life. Today an apparent loss of a sense of the transcendent is undermining the Church’s ability to address with clarity and courage the urgent tasks to which God calls it in the world.

Grab a brew and listen or watch Nick, Mairi and Dave read Psalm 139 and begin the sometimes foreign process for all of us of lifting our thinking.

Paul said it like this, "Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth." (Colossians 3:2).

Thank you very much for your prayers for healing as we have sought to return to full capacity this week. We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.

If you would like to support our work, you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us.

Here’s a short review of “Paul - Apostle of Christ.”

Come, Lord Jesus!

Love,

Nick & Mairi xx

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Hello!

Thank you for listening to this episode of Into the Pray!

Today we continue our passage through the book of 1 Corinthians in our teaching series, City of Temples (this is the 40th episode!).

You can watch this teaching session on YouTube here.

The focus of our time together today are vv12-13 of chapter 12 in what is effectively a mini-series called The Present & Continuous Holy Spirit. (This is part 5).

- What have you received from Him?
- What role does the public manifestation of the gifts have on churches?
- What does it mean to be baptised in the Holy Spirit?

Thank you very much for your prayers for healing as we have sought to return to full capacity this week. We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.

If you would like to support our work, you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us. 

Come, Lord Jesus!

Love,

Nick & Mairi xx

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Hello!

Thank you for listening to Into the Pray!

This week's Friday session is special!

Turn off the TV, sit back and listen to Dave, Nick and Mairi read J.C.Ryle's 19th Century classic, A Call to Pray.

This is our answer to the question regarding climate change:

No! The real emergency threatening the world is the "prayerless Church".

Please follow our new vlog series over on YouTube that is showcasing the very rare wonder that is faithful church leaders in the UK (and overseas) as well as shining a light on the work of the enemy within the lukewarm Church at large.

Part one is here; part two is here; part three drops on Sunday (subscribe to get notifications).

Thank you very much for your prayers for healing as we have sought to return to full capacity this week. We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.

If you would like to support our work, you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us. 

Come, Lord Jesus!

Love,

Nick & Mairi xx

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Greetings All, 

This is part 1 of a 2-part podcast. **Tune in to Into the Pray this Friday to hear J C Ryle's "A Call to Pray" read in full by Mairi, Nick & Dave.**

You can watch this podcast via basic YouTube video here.

Look out for our conversation with Alisa Childers next week.

Thank you very much for your prayers for healing as we have sought to return to full capacity this week. We share more on our Patreon page for those of you who would like to walk this journey more closely with us.

Today's Wednesday session with friend Dave Brennan of Brephos involves those two dreaded words (no, not Brexit debate) climate change. 

Dave's blog is here.

As you have watched the world swarm on Glasgow this week for COP26, as you have witnessed generations collaborating effectively together, as you have heard Greta Thunberg's scripted protestations, what have you thought?

- Is all of this harmless and, actually, quite good?
- Is there something more nefarious lurking behind the scenes?
- How should we think about the importance of creation?
- How should we both steward and worship?

Grab a brew and listen to Nick and Dave discuss an incident in Norwich last week that serves as a strong reminder (if that was needed) that the 'climate change emergency' narrative is not harmless at all.

As a visual display of Yahweh's great creation, you might enjoy a glimpse into our half-term break and Scotland’s jaw-dropping beauty? “Open Your Eyes” can be seen here.

Thank you for your prayers and please feel free to let us know how we can be praying for you.

If you would like to support our work, you can do so here and/or here. Please also consider sharing this podcast to your networks for us. 

Come, Lord Jesus!

Love,

Nick & Mairi xx

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Hello!

Thank you for listening to this episode of Into the Pray.

Our schedule of podcasts this coming week (as well as VLOGs etc) has been delayed for a week or two due to Nick’s ill health.

Please do pray for us and, especially, for pain management and good, uninterrupted, healing sleep.

Here’s a related prayer.

In the meantime, you might enjoy a glimpse into our half-term break and Scotland’s jaw-dropping beauty. “Open Your Eyes” can be seen here.

Thank you for your prayers and please feel free to let us know how we can be praying for you.

If you would like to support our work, you can do so here and/or here. 

Come, Lord Jesus!

Love,

Nick & Mairi 

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Hello!

Thank you for listening to our podcast and hope that you are growing in a love for the Bible through this weekly teaching series, City of Temples.

In a couple of weeks we welcome Alisa Childers to the podcast, so please look out for that.

Today, approaching the UK's autumn half-term week, perhaps you would spend some time thinking about the previous 3 episodes, (The Present Continuous Holy Spirit parts 1-3) and this vital emphasis today within that.

Are we keeping on asking or have we 'grown up'?

You can watch this episode of Into the Pray here.

AND if you haven't seen the beginning of our new church leader VLOG series on YouTube, you can do so here.

Finally, to help us develop this digital media, please would you seriously consider helping us with 3 things:

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Many thanks.

Maranatha/love

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Greetings All,

Please forgive this unplanned, impromptu additional podcast this week, but I believe this is very important.

You can find the blog article from this episode here.

“Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics. To us a single act of injustice--cheating in business, exploitation of the poor--is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To help us develop this digital media, please would you seriously consider helping us with 3 things:

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Many thanks. 

Maranatha/love

N&M xx

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Hello!

Thank you for listening to Into the Pray.

In a couple of weeks we welcome Alisa Childers to the podcast, so please look out for that.

Did you know that there are approaching 40 teaching episodes in the book of 1 Corinthians available in our series, City of Temples? We're currently in a mini-series as part of that entitled, The Present & Continuous Holy Spirit.

This week we're grateful to be joined by Christopher Ash, Writer-in-Residence at Tyndale House, whose extensive work on the book of Psalms enables us to think about the prophetic place and purpose of the book within the Bible.

If you haven't seen the beginning of our new VLOG series on YouTube, you can do so here.

To help us develop this digital media, please would you seriously consider helping us with 3 things:

1) Consider GIVING to our work here;
2) FORWARD this episode to your networks and, if you haven't already,
3) RATE & REVIEW Into the Pray on whatever platform you get your podcasts on.

Many thanks. 

Maranatha/love

N&M xx

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Hello!

Thank you once again for listening to Into the Pray.

In a couple of weeks we welcome Alisa Childers to the podcast, so please look out for that.

Our mid-week session this week sees Nick and Dave picking up a question that has been quite  commonly asked in the last few months:

If we take a stand regarding the COVID-19 vaccines, won't that mean that we also have to take a similar stand regarding a wide range of other medications?

**Apologies that we didn’t manage to get this conversation onto YouTube this week**

Thank you to those of you who have made contact to ask this and we hope this session helps, at least to clarify what we think about the question.

If you haven't seen the beginning of our new church leader VLOG series on YouTube - To the Church in Great Britain - you can do so here.

To help us develop this digital media further, please would you seriously consider helping us with 3 things?

1) Consider GIVING to our work here;
2) FORWARD this episode to your networks and, if you haven't already,
3) RATE & REVIEW Into the Pray on whatever platform you get your podcasts on.

Many thanks. 

Maranatha/love

N&M xx

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Hello!

Thank you for listening to our podcast and trust that you are finding these weekly sessions in 1 Corinthians helpful?

This is the third episode in a mini-series (within the overall City of Temples series), entitled, The Present & Continuous Holy Spirit.

Episode one is here.

Episode two is here.

Today our focus is on vv8-11 of chapter 12.

If you haven't see the beginning of our new VLOG series on YouTube, you can do so here.

You can also watch this episode of Into the Pray here.

To help us develop this digital media, please would you seriously consider helping us with 3 things:

1) Consider GIVING to our work here;
2) FORWARD this episode to your networks and, if you haven't already,
3) RATE & REVIEW Into the Pray on whatever platform you get your podcasts on.

Many thanks. 

Maranatha/love

N&M xx

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