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"So important a factor is prayer in Christian experience, that the history of a man’s progress in the Divine life is just the history of his progress in the knowledge and in the use of prayer." -MacGregor We thank God and all of the Visitors to our Website for our receiving over 1,000,000 "hits" in one month for the first time ever!
_________________ Site Visitors:From: 79 Countries (over half--nearly 58%--of our Site visitors are from outside of the U.S.A.).Breakdown of (approx. 30,000 Daily) Site visitors from different countries:
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We welcome all of our new Prayer Warriors---here is a listing of some of the most recent (newest added at the bottom):
Marquis: Wisconsin / Patrick: Arkansas / Carol: New
York State / Jack: Georgia / Aniano: Philippines / Lynda: California /
Carol: New York State / Anthony: Hawaii / Theresa: Georgia / David:
Tennessee / Nerine: Ontario / Carol: California / Cathy: Texas / Craig:
Texas / Daniel: South Africa / Helen: New Jersey / Joseph: London, U.K.
/ Rafik: Cairo, Egypt / Joseph: Kenya / Dana: North Carolina / Monk
Suzanne: British Columbia / Sandra: Ontario / Tina: Missouri / Donna:
New Mexico / La'amalia: Hawaii / Fr. Francis: Oklahoma / Melissa:
Florida / Marcia:
Florida / Ile-Marie: Florida / Geri: Pennsylvania / Svetlana:
Washington State / Aetna: Pennsylvania / John: Tennessee / Jack:
Georgia / Daugher: Connecticut / Bryan: Pennsylvania / Wayne:
California / Jocelyn: Arizona / David: Virginia / Alisha: Alabama /
Jay: Kentucky / Susanne: Switzerland / Justin: Georgia / Meshack:
Kenya / Beverly: Washington State / Marsha: British Columbia / Nathan:
Illinois / Evola: Oregon / Jonas: Alabama / Elli: Colorado / Kathleen:
Arizona / Lonnie: North Carolina / Philip: Ireland / James: Indiana /
Michael: Ohio/ Ashley: England / Dale: Tennessee / Carmelle Marie:
Ontario / Charles: Mississippi / Kathleen: California / Debra:
California / David: Michigan / Dominique: South Africa / Dolores: Ohio
/ Phyllis: California / Dann: Massachusetts / Jim: California / Moses
Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa / Steven: Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany /
Seiphepo: Botswana At this time there are registered Knights of Prayer ™ Monks in 31 U.S. States and in 5 Countries (Austria, Australia, Canada, the U.K., and the U.S.A.) ________________ If you find a "Link" on our website not working, please let us know the Page Name and "Linked Words" so we can fix it! __________________
We also Have a Monthly E-mail Newsletter called... The Prayer Foundation E-Letter News! ™ ...that we send out to let you know what's New! on our Web Site:
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Champions Needed For Beijing Olympics Wednesday, June 4,
2008 SANTA ANA, CA (ANS) -- Prayer champions needed. No pay but high rewards. Apply now! In the last few months, China has been in the news almost daily with protests during the Olympic Games torch relay, a paralyzing ice storm, a devastating earthquake on May 12 and numerous articles and discussions on the degree of freedom of religion in the communist country. Last August Open Doors USA launched a one-year countdown to the Summer Olympics called One Minute/One Year/One Country. The goal of the campaign is to unite believers in the West to pray for their persecuted Chinese brothers and sisters in faith. Believers who participate in the campaign receive a monthly prayer Email calendar and also a daily Email brief. Both include updated information on China and specific prayer requests. Almost 1,500 have signed up for the campaign through Open Doors USA. As the final lap – two months to go – in the One Minute/One Year/One Country prayer campaign for China approaches, Open Doors is looking for prayer warriors to host a special prayer event in their church or small group during the 2008 Olympic Games Aug. 8-24 with Open Doors offering resources in the Get-Set-Pray kit. The Get-Set-Pray
online kit includes: Visit www.OpenDoorsUSA.org or http://www.opendoorsusa.org/content/view/585 to download your free Get-Set-Pray kit. If you order the Get-Set-Pray kit by mail, you will also receive the Why China Now DVD and the Unlock Your Hidden Prayer booklet for a handling fee of $10. For more information, call Open Doors USA at 1-888-5-BIBLE-5 (888-524-2535) or Email Open Doors USA at prayer@odusa.org. “The countdown to the Beijing Olympics is only 65 days away,” says Open Doors USA President/CEO Carl Moeller. “We need to immerse the competitors, the spectators and our Chinese brothers and sisters in Christ in prayer. Over 10,000 competitors and half a million visitors are expected to travel to China. Please consider ordering our Get-Set-Pray kit and invite your friends, family and church members to unite in prayer for this historic international event.” It’s not too late to sign up for the One Minute/One Year/One Country campaign. Go to www.OpenDoorsUSA.org or http://www.opendoorsusa.org/content/view/156. An estimated 200 million Christians worldwide suffer interrogation, arrest and even death for their faith in Christ, with another 200 to 400 million facing discrimination and alienation. Open Doors supports and strengthens believers in the world's most difficult areas through Bible and Christian literature distribution, leadership training and assistance, Christian community development, prayer and presence ministry and advocacy on behalf of suffering believers. You
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Why are we a Prayer Ministry? It is our calling from God. We feel that God called us to this ministry through His Word; and also by the lives of George Müller and other great Christian men and women of prayer, and inspired us to seek a life of prayer through the writings on prayer of E. M Bounds. Why do we live and serve Christ like we do? Many times we have told those asking to simply watch our all-time favorite Film: Franco Zefirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon. It is the story of the early ministry of St. Francis. We have told many people that if they watch this film, they will understand our ministry, and that no other explanation will be necessary. We ourselves watch this film at least four times a year. Why Celtic Monasticism? Read our pages on this site: Our Goals. Then read the second half of How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill (beginning with the Chapter on St. Patrick, and continuing on through the rest of the book about the missionary-minded early Irish Celtic Monks who brought Christianity to Pagan Europe). Also read Geoffrey Moorhouse's Sun Dancing, the story of the pre-medieval Irish Celtic Monks who, for over 600 years, lived on that barren rock off the western Irish coast known as Skellig Michael. __________________________________
A Listing of All of the New Pages! on our Site Can be Found at:
Ours is a "Prayer Encouragement Ministry" of Prayer Teaching and Resources, so the more pages we have on our web site, the better we can serve your needs, and fulfill our ministry. Our Web Site went online with about 12 pages on Nov. 8, 2000.
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Movie Review: THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN Friday,
May 16, 2008 HOLLYWOOD, CA (ANS)
-- PRINCE CASPIAN is a very exciting, fantastic epic in the
tradition of LORD OF THE RINGS. Right up front it needs to be noted that
the book has been re-imagined to make the movie. In most cases, this
re-imagining has helped the drama considerably. Better yet, the
filmmakers have kept the integrity of and even highlighted the
theological points C.S. Lewis was trying to make. One would hope that
C.S. Lewis would be happy with the cinematic changes, although he was
very critical of movies in general. The movie opens with Prince Caspian learning that his evil Uncle, Miraz, who killed his father to get power, has just had a son. Now that he has an heir, Uncle Miraz can kill Caspian. Caspian’s tutor, Dr. Cornelius, hastens Caspian out of the castle and tells him to ride for the woods because the human Telmarine soldiers are afraid of the Narnian creatures in the woods. This time, however, they pursue Caspian into the woods. Caspian gets knocked off his horse into the hands of two dwarves, Trumpkin and Nikabrik. Through the dwarves, Prince Caspian meets the creatures of Narnia. In the process of his escape, he blows Susan’s horn, which calls the four Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, back to Narnia from World War II London, and even calls Aslan. The children find their Narnia castle in ruins. 1,300 years have past in Narnia time since they ruled in Narnia, although only one year has past in earth time. The evil Telmarines are destroying Narnia. It is up to Prince Caspian and the four kings and queens to take the small ragtag army of Narnian creatures and fight against the fascist armies of the Telmarines. They are hoping and praying for Aslan to come to their aid. Aslan, for those who don’t know, is the Christ figure, the son of the Emperor Beyond the Sea. The message of the book according to C.S. Lewis is the restoration of true religion in Jesus Christ after a long period of falling away. Another message is the message of the Book of Acts: How does one have faith in God, in the person of Jesus Christ, after His ascension. The book’s strong faith message remains in the movie, but it has been re-organized so that Lucy is the only one who sees Aslan until a critical point in the story, unlike the book where each one meets Aslan in his own faith walk. Some of this reorganization makes it appear as if the battles are within the province and capability of the Pevensies, Caspian and other Narnians, but ultimately, it is God who determines the course of the Narnian civilization. C. S. Lewis believed as the Bible says that through Jesus Christ God is redeeming all Creation. He sees the creatures as being redeemed along with the people. The creatures have their faith battles too. The movie clearly rejects evil, in the person of the bad Miraz and in the appearance of the White Witch, who was defeated in the first movie. The movie contains a lot of sword fighting and action, which are reminiscent of the swashbuckling epics of the Golden Age of Hollywood. The most problematic point is the fact that Susan and Lucy fight in the movie. C. S. Lewis believed that women should not fight, but the good news is that the filmmakers have chosen to be discreet about the women’s battle sequences. Even better news is that I had a long conversation with writer/director Andrew Adamson, and he decided not to use the wild party that Bacchus throws in the book. Andrew rightly believed that it was not appropriate to show children drinking wine at a raucous feast. Despite some minor loose ends in the movie, the plot points are clear, the emotion is intense, the audience cheered and laughed at the right points, and even hard-hearted critics loved the movie. PRINCE CASPIAN should be a tremendous hit since 100 million copies of THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA have been printed. MOVIEGUIDE® commends the filmmakers for being faithful to the book’s themes. They turned a difficult plot into a terrific, exciting epic adventure. SUBTITLES: None RATING: PG CONTENT: (CCC, BBB, VV, N, M) Very strong Christian worldview stresses the appearance and faith in the Christ figure of Aslan with very strong moral elements of sacrifice, loyalty, honesty, truth, and justice extolled; no foul language; strong action violence but no blood includes archers shoot pointblank, many battle sequences, people dying in battle sequences, hand-to-hand combat, sword fighting, catapults, and a full range of military and martial arts displayed, man slaps dwarf, witch cuts man’s hand, drownings, assassination, people hit and beaten, creatures and animals attack people, and people attack and kill creatures and animals; no sex; upper male nudity for male centaurs, minotaurs and mythical creatures; no apparent alcohol; no smoking; and, evil king kills brother, conspiracy against evil king. GENRE: Adventure
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