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December 12: The Third Sunday of Advent

Give us this day our daily bread, forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. –Matthew 6:11-13 Where the first 3 petitions of the Lord’s Prayer concentrate more on God and his glory, the second 3 petitions of the Lord’s Prayer [...]

December 5: The Second Sunday of Advent

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from [...]

November 28: The First Sunday of Advent

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from [...]

November 21: The Sunday of Christ the King

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. –Matthew 6:9-12 In light of the rest of Scripture, we [...]

November 14: The Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. –Matthew 6:9-11 It shouldn’t be easier to trust our Father for eternal life than it is to trust him for daily bread, [...]

November 7: The Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. –Matthew 6:9-10 In James 5:16 we’re told, “The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” Then James gives you the example of Elijah praying [...]

October 31: Reformation Sunday

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. –Matthew 6:9-10a The return of Christ with the consummation of the kingdom is an eternal decree of God. So why would our prayer for “Thy Kingdom come” matter? Besides that, if Jesus preached any content to the gospel at all, [...]

October 24: The Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. –Matthew 6:9 The reason “hallowed by thy name” is called the “first petition” is because it is just that: a petition, a request. It’s easy to think that it is a statement of a fact—something like, “Our Father in heaven, your name is [...]

October 17: The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost

Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven. –Matthew 6:9 Jesus commands us to pray a certain way, not merely to our Creator, Judge, or even King, but to our Father. Justification is fundamental; it is the doctrine by which the church stands or falls. But it is legal; it is forensic. It is a [...]

October 10: The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost

“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door [...]