Our Father in heaven,your name be honored as holy.Your kingdom come.Your will be doneon earth as it is in heaven.Give us today our daily bread.And forgive us our debts,as we also have forgiven our debtors.And do not bring us into temptation,but deliver us from the evil one.Matthew 6:9-13 Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about …
Continue reading The Lord’s Prayer #5:Give Us Today Our Daily Bread
For the last several months my wife and I have made regular (or at least semi-regular use) of the Daily Office in the Book of Common Prayer. Most often we do so individually, but sometimes we pray the Office together. On occasion, we use the family version with our kids at bedtime. We are using …
In my last post on learning to pray from Scripture, which you can find here, I talked about how the Bible reveals the truth about the God to whom we pray and why who God is matters to our prayers. This time around I want us to consider what Scripture teaches us about prayer priorities. …
Continue reading Learning to Pray from Scripture Part 2: Prayer Priorities from Paul
When I was growing up as a Roman Catholic, I was taught how to pray some specific prayers. The first was The Lord's Prayer, which in the New Testament (in the CSB) goes like this: Our Father in heaven,your name be honored as holy.Your kingdom come.Your will be doneon earth as it is in heaven.Give …
Continue reading Thoughts on Prayer: Pre-Written or Spontaneous Prayers?
“He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.”John Bunyan “It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; …
Continue reading Reading to Slow Yourself Down Part 2: Reading as a Way of Listening
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