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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Jesus taught us how to pray (Matt. 6:9-13), told us to always pray and not give up (Luke 18:1-8), encourages us to ask, seek, and knock (Matt. 7:7-11), got up early to pray (Mark 1:35), modeled how to pray (John 17:1-26), and in the Garden of Gethsemane prayed in preparation for His arrest and death (Mark 14:32-42). Jesus modeled prayer and expected His followers to pray.
Karl Graustein

A sermon is meant to be a proclamation of the truth of God as mediated through the preacher. People do not want to listen to a string of quotations of what other people have thought and said. They have come to listen to you; you are the man of God, you have been called to the ministry, you have been ordained; and they want to hear this great truth as it comes through you, through the whole of your being. They expect it to have passed through your thought, to be a part of your experience; they want this authentic personal note.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones

    • ANTHONY FALZARANO: former homosexual

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    ANTHONY FALZARANO: former homosexual

    HUSBAND, FATHER, FORMER HOMOSEXUAL

    Anthony Falzarano

     

    “I know what it’s like to be rejected by the men Ishould have been able to trust the most.”

    I was lonely and isolated as a child. My father waspsychologically absent, and my older brother would taunt me for beingintelligent and not very athletic. I wanted so much to be like himand his rejection was hard to take. I was so desperate for maleaffirmation and touch that when a school teacher showed me attention,I was easy prey. I was sexually abused by at least four others by thetime I hit 18…and while I seemed happy on the outside, I was ahurting puppy on the inside. I felt dirty andunattractive…and hadno self-esteem. So when I went to college, there were those who wereready to help this broken kid accept a gay identity. And I bought ithook, line and sinker…I spent nine years going from guy to guylooking for my “ideal” lover…until a Christian man helped me seethat I would never be satisfied in any life outside of God’s purposefor me. I got help from people who saw the hurt on the inside, notthe identity on the outside. So, don’t buy the lie. You don’t have tobe gay.

     

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