Christ Alone: A Valley of Vision Prayer

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Pastor Mark Kelly

Lately I have been wrapping up my sermon in preparation for Sunday. I am speaking on Mark 1:14-20 where John is arrested and Christ begins his ministry. He begins his ministry with a unique call to Kingdom living. Jesus Christ expects radical change and transformation in his follower’s lives. We must be focused on he [...]

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Chronic Pain: Practical Strategies; pt.4

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Pastor Mark Kelly

In this series where we’ve covered most of the ground of the booklet from CCEF entitled, “Chronic Pain: Living by Faith When Your Body Hurts“, we’ve come to understand pain personally, see God’s perspective of pain, and come to expect to groan in this life. So if we know pain very well may be inevitable, [...]

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The Cry of a Convicted Sinnner – Valley of Vision

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Pastor Mark Kelly

The Cry of a Convicted Sinner: Thou Righteous and Holy Sovereign, in whose hand is my life and whose are all my ways, keep me from fluttering about religion; fix me firm  in it, for I am irresolute; my decisions are smoke and vapour, and I do not glorify thee, or behave according to they [...]

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Right Idea – Wrong Words

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Pastor Mark Kelly

Yesterday I blogged a post entitled, “Top Ten Mistakes Made by Suffering Pastors“. This post kind of dovetails with that one. Regardless of position in church, when one individual desires to comfort another, often they communicate something correct using the “wrong” words. Let me give you my top five: Right Idea, Wrong Words: “God’s Sovereign” [...]

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Weaknesses – Valley of Vision

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Pastor Mark Kelly

O Spirit of God, Help my infirmities; When I am pressed down with a load of sorrow, perplexed and knowing not what to do, slandered and persecuted, made to feel the weight of the cross, help me, I pray thee. If thou seest in me any wrong thing encouraged, any evil desire cherished, any delight [...]

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Taking a Break from Posting Due to Spinal Fusion Surgery

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Pastor Mark Kelly

My posting on Grace Dependent has become very intermittent and almost non-existent. This is due to a battle I have been waging with Chronic Pain due to disc deterioration in my L3/L4/L5/S1. I am scheduled for surgery on October 25. I have already had one Spinal Fusion surgery two years ago: S1/L5 were fused. This [...]

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Christians Get Depressed Too – an intimate look, pt.3 (video post)

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Pastor Mark Kelly

(If you receive this via RSS you may need to click through to view video) Part three of a look at the eight reasons why David Murray says in his book Christians Get Depressed Too that we should learn all we can about depression. Sorry about the shaking of the camera. I was holding my [...]

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Ed Welch’s How to Talk to God When You are Suffering

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Pastor Mark Kelly

I found this short article from Ed Welch on CCEF’s website to be an incredibly encouraging read: “Why is God doing this to me?” These words signal a spiritual train wreck in process. Any version of a “why” question, when it is directed to or about the God of the Bible, is terribly risky. Even [...]

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A Praying Life – Paul Miller (Free for Kindle – limited time)

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Pastor Mark Kelly

One of the spiritual disciplines that I struggle with the most, and yet am reminded daily that I need to increase, is prayer. I’ve read many books on prayer as a result. I am learning that reading a book on prayer is not the same as praying. Funny how we equate those two sometimes, isn’t [...]

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How Does God Answer Prayer?

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Pastor Mark Kelly

I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice… Before getting into the details of how God answers prayer, we should be reminded that he does answer prayer! This is a sure thing and something we should cling to. As Robert Murray McCheyne says, There never was, and never will be, a believing prayer [...]

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