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Audio: How we do instrumental Puritan prayer readings in service

For quite some time we’ve regularly been opening our services with a Puritan prayer reading. We do these readings over a variety of instrumental pieces, usually riff ideas that we’ve been playing around with that sometimes turn into full songs. In this case we just took a riff from one of the songs we were [...]

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IHOP (restaurant) sues IHOP (prayer movement) over trademark

When I saw the headline “IHOP (the pancake-maker) sues IHOP (the prayer center) over trademark” , my thought was, what took them so long? I mean I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a more clear case of trademark infringement. Let’s look at the names: International House of Pankcakes (IHOP) International House of Prayer (IHOP) [...]

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A morning prayer from the unemployed

As some of you may or may not know, I am currently looking for work and have been for the past month. This is the second year in a row I’ve been jobless over Thanksgiving and now possibly Christmas. Last year was extremely difficult for me, but God was faithful and through that season I [...]

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Pray for Kate McRae, 5yr old girl with rare brain tumor

I saw some tweets from Brian Wurzell, Worship Director at Cornerstone Christian Fellowship talking about an urgent prayer request for a family in their church who has a 5yr old daughter currently in Phoenix Children’s Hospital about to go into brain surgery. She has a very rare and aggressive form of cancer that is being [...]

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How God became chief in my music

I love that I serve a God who’s never through showing more of himself. The more I long to see something new, something unseen by myself, something for the present day, He blossoms something in my spirit. These past months have been an extremely difficult time for me personally, while being an incredible growth period [...]

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