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Your kingdom come
This is part of a series called “Into the Lord’s Prayer”, looking closer at how we use the framework of the prayer and making it relevant and useful to us today.
Jesus went to great pains to explain to his followers and critics what his father’s “kingdom” was. There was a great expectation among the Jews [...]
Hallowed be your name
This is part of a series called “Into the Lord’s Prayer”, looking closer at how we use the framework of the prayer and making it relevant and useful to us today.
Hallowed? What on earth does that mean? Even the majority of Christians will probably struggle to answer that question without resorting to a dictionary. Myself [...]
Our Father in heaven
This is part of a series called “Into the Lord’s Prayer”, looking closer at how we use the framework of the prayer and making it relevant and useful to us today.
You could think of this line as the start of a letter, beginning with the name of the recipient and their address. The prayer is [...]
Into the Lord’s Prayer - Introduction
Several years ago I attended a Chaplaincy Assistants’ Conference, hosted by a university chaplaincy that shall remain anonymous, and which was attended by a handful of Chaplaincy Assistants from across the country. My initial enthusiasm for the day was soon diminished as I realised how little God seemed to feature in the lives of the [...]
God the Builder - crutch or scaffolding?
If you take a look at the parables of Jesus you will see a lot of analogies with things people at the time would have known about. Farming techniques, fishing, dealing with tax collectors, vineyards and olive groves. All these were common knowledge for the people he was speaking to. I wonder if the meaning [...]
Prayer e-mails from Laura
(This in no way a rip off of C S Lewis’ Prayer Letters to Malcolm)
Sometimes the Christian life is amazing. Sometimes you walk around and little birds come to rest on your shoulder. They sweetly tweet Handle’s Messiah into your ear, as you walk around the garden in your white sheet and sandals, deeply engrossed [...]