Our congregation at Covenant Church sang this wonderful praise song last Sunday, and I pray its words today, so that our community and our world can be blessed again. The words and music are by Brenton Brown. The title is “A Thousand Generations.” May these words be in our minds and hearts as we live through this day, and may it stand as the prayer for this generation as well: “You have been faithful to a thousand generations, Slow to…..

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With a friend, I am embarking on a new personal ministry inspired by a book by Roy Godwin and Dave Roberts called The Grace Outpouring, Becoming a People of Blessing. It is basically a prayer ministry for community, with which people bless each other with this specific blessing prayer and then watch the Holy Spirit take command over the situation. It asks of me that I bless those with whom I come in contact by asking, “May I pray a…..

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