With this line, “thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven,” the Lord’s Prayer wraps up its first section by repeating the word that appeared at the end of the first line, “heaven.” We can feel the point, I think, by comparing the Prayer as we pray it, which is largely the […]
Sermon Topic: Lord's Prayer
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
When we talk about Our Daily Bread, first, we must take note that there is a provision made for us in creation. Genesis records that in the Garden of Eden, God gave us all manner of herb and tree and fruit and seed to be food for us. (Gn 1.29) Later, after man is expelled […]
And Lead Us Not into Temptation
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Our Father, who art in heaven
When we pray to God, we sometimes go about it as if God were a target a long way off. We lob our prayers at this target like artillerymen laying down a barrage. When we pray alone we hope that our prayer wings its way to our target and strikes home. If we are bold […]
The Simplicity of Prayer
Lots of people want to pray better: it seems to be a near-universal desire. We find our prayers don’t satisfy. Prayer fails to be what we think it ought to be. Maybe there’s a secret we don’t know. Or maybe there’s some higher pedagogy that could help. But frustrating as it may be, the secret […]
Be Ready for His Coming: Forgive
Jesus liked to use agricultural images. A farmer scatters seed, and then it sprouts and grows, and there’s the stalk, and then there are leaves, and then there’s the grain. And one day the grain is ripe and the farmer, until now just silent in the background, suddenly appears with his sharp blade to harvest […]
