2007

FRIDAY PRAYER SERIES LIBRARY

The reflections on integral mission, and statistics on the Millennium Development Goals, featured each week in the Friday Prayer Series, have become a library of resources for preparing presentations, sermons and learning materials.

HOW TO SEARCH:

  1. For articles featured in 2007 scroll down this page
  2. To search the whole collection use the links immediately below. You can search for articles by author, title, or bible verse, and for statistics by MDG goals or targets. You you can also use 'Edit/Find' in your browser to search for key words in a document, or the brown 'Search this site' box at left.

2007

Friday December 14 2007 Lazarus-like-Looking at the Church’s Response to AIDS in Africa
John 11:1-14
Reflection: Annette Schouten-Woudstra

Friday December 7 2007 For Every Child - song
Isaiah 9:1-7
Reflection: Stuart Townend

Friday November 30 2007 Breaking Barriers of Class, Culture, Race, Gender and Disability Part 2
Acts 16:11-40
Reflection: Beulah Wood

Friday November 23 2007 Breaking Barriers of Class, Culture, Race, Gender and Disability Part 1
Acts 12:12-17
Reflection: Beulah Wood

Friday November 16 2007 Millennium Development Goals Countdown by 2015
Acts 2:42-47
Reflection: Lawrence Temfwe

Friday November 9 2007 The Lord's Prayer - used creatively
Matthew 6
Reflection: Tearfund UK

Friday November 2 2007 Powering Down
Romans 8:28
Reflection: Javakumar Christian

Friday October 26 2007 An Upside-Down World
3 John
Reflection: Christopher J.H. Wright

Friday October 19 2007 World Banquet
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
Reflection: Hanspeter Schmutz

Friday October 12 2007 Christ likeness is the will of God for the people of God
Romans 8:29, 2 Cor 3:18, 1 John 3:2
Reflection: Rev. John Stott

Friday September 28 2007 Healing and Memorial Service - Africa Praying
Psalm 23
Reflection: Dube, M & Moyo, L

Friday September 21 2007 I Will Renounce
Mark 8:34-38
Leonardo Alvarez

Friday September 14 2007 Christian NGOs facilitating local church action
Matthew 14:13-21
Reflection: Tulo Raistrick

Friday September 7 2007 Early Church Wholistic Mission - Church Aid & Development Committees
Acts 6:1-7
Reflection: Julian Doorey

Friday August 31 2007 Create to Advocate
Exodus 35:30-36:1
Reflection : Create to Advocate

Friday August 24 2007 Visits to Zambia by eminent people
1 Kings 10:1-3
Reflection: Lawrence Temfwe

Friday August 3 2007 Stimulating Imagination
Zechariah 8
Reflection: Peter Sawtell

Friday July 27 2007 What does salvation mean in the urban context?
Luke 19:1-10
Reflection: Jon Kurht

Friday July 20 2007 On the care of creation
Psalm 24:1
Reflection: Evangelical Envrionmental Network


Friday July 13 2007 To the G8 Leaders
Luke 16:19-31
Reflection: Bishop Desmond Tutu

Friday July 6 2007 Prayer as a gift from the Spirit
Romans 8:26-27
Reflection: Steve Bradbury

Friday June 29 2007 Spirit, Justice, Worship and Mission
Isaiah 1:10-17
Reflection: CB Samuel

Friday June 22 2007 Spirit and Justice
Micah 6:8
Reflection: CB Samuel

Friday June 15 2007 Transformed people transforming society
Luke 2:43-47
Reflection: Joe Simfukwe

Friday June 8 2007 Signs of a Spirit-filled Community
Acts 4:32-37
Reflection: Joe Simfukwe

Friday June 1 2007 Pentecost and a love story
Book of Ruth
Reflection: Erika Izquierdo

Friday May 25 2007 Celebration!
Exodus 23:16; Exodus 34:22
Reflection: Erika Izquierdo

Friday May 18 2007 For the Common Good - a biblical role of government
Reflection: Ron Sider

Friday May 11 2007 If the foundations be destroyed..
Psalm 11:3; Psalm 89:14
Reflection: Geoffrey Washiali

Friday May 4 2007 Reflections on the Church and Poverty
Luke 16:19ff
Reflection: Rev. Malcolm Duncan

Friday April 20 2007 In the Age of Dictators
Hebrews 12:1-3
Reflection: Janani Luwum

Friday April 13 2007 Baptism and a New Humanity - Pt 2
2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Reflection: Ian Barnes

Friday April 6 2007 Baptism and a New Humanity - Pt 1
Colossians 1:15-20
Reflection: Ian Barnes

Friday March 30 2007 Micah Challenge - A Prayer of Hope
John 13:1-17
Reflection: Rev. David Pargeta

Friday March 23 2007 Role of a Prophet
Micah 3:1-8
Reflection: Erika Izquierdo

Friday March 16 2007 Integral Mission in a large city church
James 2:14-26
Reflection: Tearfund UK Case Study

Friday March 2 2007 What the heck is social justice?
Leviticus 25
Reflection: Rose Marie Berger

Friday February 23 2007 Lenten Prayers for Hungry People
Deuteronomy 26:1-13
Reflection: Bread for the World

Friday February 16 2007 Review of A Storkey's 'Jesus and Politics'
Matthew 22:15-40
Reflection: Michael Barram

Friday February 9 2007 Forgive Without a Second Thought
Romans 12:9-21
Reflection: O'Nel Mala

Friday February 2 2007 Should we be concerned?
Proverbs 31:8-9
Reflection: Bonnie M Jacob

Friday January 26 2007 Modelling Sacrificial Service
John 13:1-7
Reflection: Lawrence Temfwe

Friday January 19 2007 The Rich Man Reformed
Luke 19:1-10
Reflection: African Bible Commentary

Friday January 12 2007 Judges - Deborah and justice
Judges 4 and 5
Reflection: Amanda Jackson

Friday January 5 2007
Beatitudes for a Globalised World
Matthew 5:1-12
Reflection: Bishop Christopher Gregorowski from Cape Town

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