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September 11 2008 at 3:02 pm

Sunday Preview: Ephesians and Praying for Iran

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This Sunday Mike Bradshaw leads our time of singing. Mark Mullery, senior pastor of Sovereign Grace Church of Fairfax will continue our Ephesians series, preaching from 1:3-6:

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

We will also take some time to pray for the nation of Iran, a nation rich with history and culture but currently facing some grave circumstances such as religious persecution, human trafficking, and rising poverty and unemployment. On Sunday, we will pray for these 65 million people and the converts among them facing great pressure and persecution from family and friends and from the Islamic government, which just passed a bill imposing the death penalty for converts to Christianity. But by God’s grace and in spite of the isolation from the outside world of believers, the young church in Iran thrives, and I look forward to crying out to the Lord on their behalf this Sunday.

 

 





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