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Josh Yeoh: In That Day

by andrewkooman on December 6, 2011

I first met Josh Yeoh a number of years ago while living in Malaysia, but didn’t get to know the man until a recent trip (when I returned to the country to work on this project).  I had never spent much time before in a House of Prayer, but because of my friendship with Josh [...]

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My Prayer Today

by andrewkooman on October 18, 2011

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Teach Me To Pray

by andrewkooman on May 16, 2011

My nephew and godson turned 3 this past week.  I decided, and was prompted, to make him a book. It’s a colourful one that summarizes some of Andrew Murray’s life-changing principles from With Christ in the School of Prayer into (hopefully) simple-to-understand truths. Here’s screen shots of a few of the 20 pages from the [...]

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A Better Country – A Ticket Home

by andrewkooman on November 3, 2010

The next group of Vietnamese detainees were more fortunate.  Ellen had tickets for ten of the eleven.  Seven men and three women.  The lone unfortunate was a few weeks away from being given the same good news.  Ellen tenderly touched his cheek and told him to be strong as he waited patiently for release.  A [...]

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When: October 8 – 10, 2010 She Has A Name will be read Saturday Night, Oct 9 I’m excited about an upcoming international conference on justice hosted by Thorneapple Church where my friend Rob Peterson pastors. She Has A Name, my new play, will have a featured reading Saturday night at the conference. And I [...]

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Put THAT in your pipe and… distribute it?

by andrewkooman on June 10, 2010

Our prayer is like pipes, through which water is carried from a large mountain stream to a town some distance away.  Such water pipes don’t make the water willing to flow down from the hills, nor do they give it its power of blessing and refreshment.  This is its nature.  All they do is to [...]

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I was asked to share at the first annual Gateway Christian School Alumni Chapel about Hearing God’s Voice, a chapel filled with energetic students from grade four to grade twelve, some of their parents, their teachers, and a dozen or more alumni.  As I prepared, I started to think  a lot about prayer.  I believe [...]

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One Million People Pray and Fast in Haiti

by andrewkooman on March 3, 2010

The video below is crazy!  My friends at photogenX who are in Haiti as we speak doing work and documenting the need so they can give feedback to releif agencies alerted me to this video.  In mid-February, President Preval asked the nation to gather to fast and pray, and a million people showed up for [...]

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