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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Prayer -- What It Is

Today we begin “Lord, Teach Us to Pray,” a series of Sunday Evensong sermons that will run weekly through May 20 (save Palm Sunday and Easter Day). We did a similar sermon series last year on the Apostles’ Creed, to which there was a very encouraging response, first of all from the congregation present for […]

Father

In the name of God: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen. There’s no doubt that the Lord’s Prayer is the normative prayer for Christian people; it’s the prayer that we recite at just about every worship service I can think of. If Christians somewhere in the world right now are praying, it’s quite likely that […]

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 […]