The Lord’s Prayer with Emphasis Placed on “Your will be done (on earth as it is in heaven)“ This third reflection on the Lord’s Prayer guides our thoughts as we seek to understand the Father’s will and directs our actions as we strive to follow the will of the Father. Our Father in heaven, hallowed… Continue reading The Lord’s Prayer: Reflection III
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Matthew 10:1-4 – The Answer to Jesus’s Prayer
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 the 30’s we might splash… Continue reading Matthew 10:1-4 – The Answer to Jesus’s Prayer
Matthew 8:1-17 – The Father’s Will, Part 1
In 1897 Charles Sheldon published the book In His Steps, in which he introduced a phrase that would become quite popular in the 20th and 21st centuries. The abbreviation of this phrase would adorn innumerable items such as t-shirts, bumper stickers, and rubber bracelets. Mr. Sheldon’s phrase, What Would Jesus Do (abbr. WWJD), has been… Continue reading Matthew 8:1-17 – The Father’s Will, Part 1
On Earth as it is in Heaven.
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 will is done in heaven.… Continue reading On Earth as it is in Heaven.
Your Will be Done…
Your will be done… One of the most asked questions I heard when I taught Bible classes was how we know the will of God. Somewhere along the line, the students had been told, or they had reasoned, that the will of God had primarily to do with the path their lives would take. God’s… Continue reading Your Will be Done…