Joel Kim
speaker
1,172 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Joel Kim’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He has never served a large church, never written a book, never discharged the duties of high denominational office.
Doubtless, his praying too embraces idioms and stylistic idiosyncrasies that should not be copied.
But with great gratitude to God, I testify that my parents were not hypocrites.
That is the worst possible heritage to leave with children, high spiritual pretensions and low performance.
My parents were the opposite, few pretensions and disciplined performance.
And sometimes when I look at my own children, I wonder if, should the Lord give us another 30 years, they will remember their father as a man of prayer?
Or think of him as someone distant who was away from home rather a lot and who wrote a number of obscure books.
That quiet reflection often helps me to order my days.
This is a reminder of not only what I saw growing up in my parents who prayed, also a reminder to me as I think about my two children, Anna and Simeon,
what they see in their dad and their parents in particular.
Prayer, we know, is such an important part of who we are and what we ought to do in life, but often one of the more difficult elements of our own Christian walk in life as well.
Well, in this introduction, Paul is not only content to remind us that ultimately that his question throughout the book of Colossians is about how we who belong to Christ Jesus live on this side of glory wherever the Lord has placed us.
He does so by reminding us of the importance of prayer in four parts, constancy, characteristic, content, and confidence.
constancy, characteristic, content, and confidence.
Here, Paul reminds us that he does, and he reminds us to also pray unceasingly.
As you see in Colossians 1, verse 3, we always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you.
The translation here is a bit flexible, as we recognize that always means
can be attached to thanking God, always thanking God, or attached to we pray for you.
We always pray for you.
Either way, it indicates the constancy with which he actually does pray.
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