Tapping into Our Source of Life through Prayer
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The instruction to "pray without ceasing" is not given to burden us--but to liberate us from our burdens. Today, Burk Parsons encourages Christians to remember the blessing of prayer and to draw near to our loving Father.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
Burk Parsons is senior pastor of Saint Andrew's Chapel in Sanford, FL, chief editorial officer for Ligonier Ministries, editor of Tabletalk magazine, and a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow. He is author of Why Do We Have Creeds?, editor of Assured by God and John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, and Doxology, and cotranslator and coeditor of A Little Book on the Christian Life by John Calvin.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | The point of Paul saying pray without ceasing is not to burden us. |
| 0:04.3 | It's to liberate us from our burdens. |
| 0:06.1 | It's to say whenever you're burden, whenever you are even burdened and feel badly about not praying, |
| 0:11.3 | bring it to the Lord, pray without ceasing. |
| 0:14.0 | Does prayer feel like a burden for you? |
| 0:20.0 | Are you weighed down as you recognize Does prayer feel like a burden for you? |
| 0:23.0 | Are you weighed down as you recognize your prayerlessness, |
| 0:26.0 | even as you desire to pray more? |
| 0:29.0 | Well, stay with us today, |
| 0:30.0 | as Burke Parsons brings a message I personally found so helpful and encouraging on the topic of prayer. |
| 0:37.0 | This is the Monday edition of renewing your mind. I'm your host, Nathan W Bingham. |
| 0:45.0 | Back in May, Ligner Ministries held their annual national conference in Orlando, Florida, |
| 0:51.0 | and thousands of Christians of all ages gathered for three days of |
| 0:54.5 | fellowship and teaching on the theme the way the truth and the life. This week you'll |
| 1:00.5 | hear some of those sessions and will be featuring a new resource offer for |
| 1:04.6 | you every day. |
| 1:06.6 | Today when you give a donation of any amount at renewing your mind.org we'll send you |
| 1:11.6 | John Calvin's practical and classic book, A Little Book on the Christian Life. |
| 1:17.0 | Dr Parsons co-translated this fresh edition. |
| 1:20.0 | We'll also send you Dr. Sproll's title, |
| 1:22.8 | Does Prayer Change Things Two Resources to Help You |
| 1:26.3 | in your Christian Growth? |
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