Prayer Meeting, etc.

I was at our church's prayer meeting tonight, and thought it was great. Quite a number of men prayed, and the prayers were specifically focused, fervent and simple. Wow! It was great. One big focus was an upcoming evangelistic "tent meeting". Needless to say, and evangelistic event must be upheld in prayer if there is to be fruit. Bethany came out to the meeting with me. She enjoys spending some time with Daddy, and quite frequently her friend Lizzy is there.

I got my order from Chapters, and included was Eusebius's History of the Church, which covers the first 300 years of church history. I'm really looking forward to digging into it. So far, I'm still on the introduction.

I'm showing my Sunday School class the "Left Behind" video. This is raising some eyebrows, but before it raises yours, please hear me out. The kids told me they wanted to see the video. I agreed, but first we spent 2 weeks discussing Bible prophecy and learning how to build prophecy charts. I gave them each a copy of Ed Harlow's primer on prophecy, and they had to read the chapter on the Rapture before I would let them watch the video. Also, the day we started watching the video I gave them a handout comparing the movie with what we understand the Bible to teach. So, I think this is a reasonable approach.