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The Lord’s Prayer: Reflection II

The Lord’s Prayer with Emphasis Placed on “Your kingdom come (on earth as it is in heaven).” This second reflection on the Lord’s Prayer helps us better understand the Father’s present and emerging kingdom for which we pray. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. – Let your kingdom, […] Read more

The Lord’s Prayer: Reflection I

The Lord’s Prayer with Emphasis Placed on “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.” This first reflection shows the entire Lord’s Prayer as a litany of praise as we pray and meditate on the many ways in which the Father’s name — his nature and his character — is […] Read more

The Lord’s Prayer and Matthew’s Gospel: A Summary, Part 2

The previous post summarized how Matthew’s Gospel helps inform us how to better pray the Lord’s Prayer, and specifically, it was focused on the first four statements of the Lord’s Prayer. The traditional approach to the Lord’s Prayer categorizes each statement as a petition, but such a categorization seems to […] Read more

The Lord’s Prayer and Matthew’s Gospel: A Summary, Part 1

A number of years ago, in the hopes that I might learn a bit more about prayer, I began studying the disciples’ request in Luke 11:1, “Lord, teach us to pray,” and Jesus’s answer in Luke 11:2-4, the Lord’s Prayer. It wasn’t long before I felt compelled to reread the […] Read more

Matthew 28 – The Dawn, the Message, and the Kingdom

If Matthew had been recording the story of any other person, after the tomb was sealed, all he would have to write about would be the lives of Jesus’s friends over the next few days, months, and years. Such a story could possibly go on after their deaths, but eventually, […] Read more

Matthew 27:45-65 – The Cross, the Curtain, and the Tomb

Jesus, beaten senselessly, bleeding profusely, and stripped naked hangs on the cross for the world to see. Many people mock him, some ignore him, and his closest friends, those who were actually present, mourned him. Matthew writes, 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until […] Read more