series12 posts · 2017
The Lord’s Prayer
Written from January 2017 to March 2017. Read in order, from the top.
Those Who Don't Pray
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus addressed common ways that people often practice their righteousness before men: almsgiving, praying, and fasting.
Pater Noster
Jesus assumes that men pray; even hypocrites and idolators pray.
Open Up the Spigot
Jesus warned about two ways of praying wrongly before providing a pattern of prayer for His disciples.
Verbal Forklifts Not Required
Jesus instructed the disciples about two things regarding prayer before He provided the pattern in Matthew 6.
Not to Make Us Stars
If we avoid pretentious hypocrisy and superstitious verbosity as Jesus warned His disciples, how should we pray?
Current Visibility
When Jesus taught His disciples to pray He started the pattern with requests that calibrate our perspective.
A Lot of Calvinistic Sun in the Sky
The third request of Jesus’ prayer takes a lot of faith.
Right Out of the Oven
Halfway into Matthew’s rendering of the Lord’s Prayer Jesus provides the most temporal of all the requests: “Give us this day our…
The "Oh, no!" Conjunction
In the middle of the next petition in the Lord’s Prayer is a small word labeled by some Greek grammarians as the…
After the Final Amen
Of all the petitions that Jesus taught His disciples to pray, the only one He clarified after the final amen, so to…
Their Website Address
The final two petitions in the Lord’s prayer are closer in concern than any other two petitions.
A Longer Prayer
This will be the last exhortation to confession based on the Lord’s Prayer, and my goal is to wrap up this series…