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Mortification of Spin

Bully Pulpit: Public Pulpit Prayer

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4879 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2015

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Public pulpit prayer can be real hit or miss these days, even a lost art. So what’s the criteria for a good prayer? Are they best on-the-fly or written, and is it more biblical one way or the other? The 40-somethings answer these and many more questions today and give their usual food for thought. Resources mentioned on Public Pulpit Prayer: The Book of Common Prayer Valley of Vision Leading in Prayer: A Workbook for Worship by Hughes Oliphant Old The Pastor in Prayer by Charles Spurgeon Thoughts on Public Prayer by Samuel Miller The Pastor’s Book by Kent Hughes. A Method for Prayer by Matthew Henry

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0:00.0

This is Carl Truman speaking on behalf of the mortification of Spin Team.

0:03.9

We've been producing the program for over two years now.

0:06.3

I want to thank our faithful listeners and those who perhaps just joined the conversation

0:10.2

for supporting our efforts in providing what we hope is a helpful resource to those in the

0:15.6

pulpit in the pew.

0:17.1

Here's what a couple of our listeners, Nayara and Adam, are saying about the show.

0:23.2

My name is Nyara and Drasik. I am a housewife. I am a homeschool mom and I'm also a student.

0:31.3

Modification of spin has been very helpful for me and my husband and my whole family because it has helped us to exercise the sermon

0:40.1

and critical thinking about contemporary evangelical trends. It has forced us to think about

0:46.0

things that we wouldn't normally do. The show on the sexual abuse, we had never put any

0:51.9

thought into that because we sometimes think that those things would never happen in the church.

0:57.0

It was very touching. It was very, it hit me very hard to think that those things can happen any time right next to you, even in your church.

1:08.0

That helped us think a lot about those kind of issues.

1:13.6

So important for the church today to know their theology and how that plays out in the world

1:19.6

when you go to work, when you're teaching your kids at home, whatever you're doing.

1:25.6

My name is Adam Wilson. I'm currently whatever you're doing.

1:35.3

My name's Adam Wilson. I'm currently studying at Westminster Theological Seminary preparing for pastoral ministry. I've been listening to the Morification of Spin since day one really, and I continue to listen to Morification of Spin because I think they're just really good at raising questions

1:46.3

that otherwise wouldn't be on my radar. The application isn't just for ministers and how to care

1:51.3

for congregations, but it's also for the everyday congregant and about how they can love each other

1:56.9

well and think through difficult doctrines. And they don't dumb it down. I've really loved

2:03.0

the episodes where they just provide basic but really needed advice about what books to read

2:09.5

with your children, what books are good for family devotion, how to prepare for the year

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