The Lord’s Prayer with Emphasis Placed on “On earth as it is in heaven” This fourth reflection on the Lord’s Prayer turns our focus toward the Father’s active involvement in this present world and this present time. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. – We praise you, Father, […] Read more
Long before Scheherazade, Charles Heath, or Charles Dickens, Matthew penned a cliffhanger when he recorded Jesus’s words to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” If this was a movie from […] Read more
Of the many courses I took in seminary, one of the more important ones was the course on Hermeneutics. Hermeneutics is not, as I used to think, the study of all people named “Herman,” but it is the study of how to properly read and interpret the Bible. One of […] Read more
Your kingdom come,Your will be done,On earth as it is in heaven. Jesus tells us that we should pray that God’s kingdom on earth would look like God’s kingdom in heaven. He tells us to pray that God’s will should be done on earth in the same way that God’s […] Read more