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
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
I can look out my living room window and see the broad and basic contours of the southern edge of a small forest. But the beauty of this view cannot be seen while walking through the same woods where I can observe the individual trees, the undergrowth, the dead and […] Read more
After the very important drumrolls of Matthew’s first four chapters, we finally arrive at Jesus’s first recorded teaching of the Kingdom of Heaven, and it’s quite a doozy. There is more depth and breadth and width and height to the wisdom found within this passage than I can uncover. But […] Read more
One of my favorite elements of the earth’s landscapes is the mountain. If I could, I’d have a house far enough away from mountains so I could see them clearly, but close enough so I could climb them daily. While I enjoy looking at mountain peaks, I don’t often study […] Read more
The name of the Lord shines brightly through each verse of Matthew’s first two chapters; that name we hold hallowed as we pray and offer praise. Certainly, the whole of scripture is a revelation of God, but Matthew’s first two chapters seem to be especially focused on his work, providing […] Read more
Your kingdom come… The British Empire, The Roman Empire, The Spanish Empire, The Russian Empire, The Caliphates, Chinese Dynasties, Mongols, Aztecs, Greeks, Macedonians, Egyptians, Mayans, Babylonians, Huns, Assyrians, Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Michael Jackson. These all have at least two things in common; first, they ruled or […] Read more