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  • Sermon Series: Jesus Teaches Prayer

    Sermon Series: Jesus Teaches Prayer

    In the Ko-fi shop there is a series of sermon presentation files for a sermon series of ten messages on prayer, based on the teachings of Jesus. these are free to members.

    Jesus Teaches Prayer

    #1-Praying for God’s Kingdom Matthew 6:5-15.
    “Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”

    ​#2-God Gives Good Gifts Matthew 7:7-12

    ” If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!”

    #3-A House of Prayer Matthew 21:12-13

    “‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’;
     but you are making it a den of robbers.”

    #4-How Do I Talk to God? Luke 11:1-4

    “When you pray, say:….”

    #5-Lord, Teach Us to Pray Luke 11:1-4

    “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” 

    #6-How Much More Luke 11:5-13

    “If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

    #7-Persistent Praying Luke 18:1-8

    “Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.”

    #8-Two Prayers Luke 18:9-14

    “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.”  ​

    #9-Wake Up and Pray! Luke 22:39-46

    “Get up and pray that you may not come into the time of trial.” 

    #10-The Lord’s Prayer John 17.

    “Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.”

    RANDOM NOTES ON THESE FILES: These contain speaker’s notes which might be helpful — or not. They are only suggestions, to get you get started in thinking about how to develop the ideas on the slides. As always, you are free to use these however you wish. If there is something there you disagree with, BY ALL MEANS CHANGE IT! Don’t preach something you can’t defend during the week. I keep trying to get better at this, and will upload improved or updated files if I feel that is warranted. I am discovering that the ODP do not always look as good as I wish they did. I am still learning this format. 

    I am (of course) continuing my series on Amos but I have no idea (at this point) how many messages will be in that series. Other files will be going up also.  

  • Site Update: July 10, 2026

    Site Update: July 10, 2026

    For many years now I have had a this personal website on the Internet.

    I have decided it’s all coming down. There are a lot of reasons for that — which I’d rather not go into right now. The material here will go back up on the Internet in some form — but I’m not sure what and where just yet. My web hosting is paid through December, so the transition can be slow. But, I’ve known for years that I need to abandon that particular project.

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  • Sanctification as a Central Theme

    Sanctification as a Central Theme

    Since this is actually another blog re-boot,  I thought it would be good to re-iterate my intentions for this web site and this blog — and for my various Internet projects.

    In other words, I’d like to take a few moments to answer the question: why am I doing this? There are days when that is quite a serious question. What has kept me at this so long, and what am I trying to accomplish? I maintain not only this blog, but a growing collection of old holiness writings, a blog drawn from the writings of Daniel Steele and a blog drawn from the writings of Thomas C. Upham. So, that’s really quite a lot.

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  • Site Update 12-26-2024

    Site Update 12-26-2024

    Internet

    The blog that I have been using with my web site needed a radical revision. In fact, what it needed was replacement. As I understand it, this is related to advances in the PHP scripting language — a language used by WordPress.

    This is an all-new blog with an all-new address: https://blog.craigladams.com/

    Since much of the content on my web site was from the blog, deleting the old blog (which I have done) has broken a large number of the links on the web site as a whole. Much of the information and opinion that was here, is no longer here. I am sorry, but replacing the old blog with this new one is something that had to be done. Material from the old blog will be replaced and updated over time — but, we may be talking about a long time.

    My intention is to add articles that I believe have an ongoing interest to the Articles page — to keep something like this from happening again. (Although, since I am 75 years old at this point, I may not have to worry about another update like this one — I may not live that long!)

    As it stands, I am quite a way from getting this up and running. I am still experimenting with themes and designs, and am not yet ready to add content. So, this thing may look different from day to day, as I continue to experiment.

    This web site is, quite frankly, a vanity site. It’s a personal project. I make no money from this (as it stands) and it costs me money to keep it up and running. I just hope it has been helpful to some people — and will continue to be helpful in the future.