THE LORD’S PRAYER ends as it began … with praise to God. The Lord’s Prayer begins with a focus on Our Father in Heaven; His Name, His Kingdom, and His Will, asking that these things be done on earth as they are in heaven. The Lord’s Prayer concludes with a doxology that re-focuses our attention […]
The Lord’s Prayer is all about God; Who He is and what He does for us. Jesus teaches us to focus our attention on God the Father in this prayer; to look to Him for all good things; and to turn to Him in times of trouble. The Lord’s Prayer is all about God! • […]
The “Lord’s” Prayer is Jesus’ Prayer that He shares with us. In the Lord’s Prayer, we pray “forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.” Here is how we learn it in the Small Catechism: THE FIFTH PETITION OF THE LORD’S PRAYER And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those […]
The Lord’s Prayer is Jesus’ prayer that He shares with us. It’s a model prayer: it’s a structure, format, and content for us to use in our own prayers to Our Father In Heaven. Today we are looking at the phrase, Thy Will Be Done. You can view God’s will in two ways: His Revealed […]
When you think of the Kingdom of God, one of your first thoughts is probably that Jesus is the King of the Kingdom of God. And rightly so, because Jesus is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. He fulfills the prophecies given to King David that one his descendants will have an […]
Do you know how you were named? Perhaps you have a family member’s name; or you are named after someone significant to your parents. Perhaps your name comes from the Bible, or maybe your parents were working with a theme when naming you. Or maybe your folks just liked the name, and wanted to give […]
The Lord’s Prayer has probably always been a part of your life. If you grew up in the Church, you have heard it each week in worship; you learned it in Sunday School, you had to memorize it in Confirmation, and you have been saying it youth group, Bible studies, and meetings. You may use […]