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Series: Teach Us to Pray
Tony Thomas
Luke 11:1-4
A construction worker removes his hat and quietly bows his head at the local McDonald's restaurant. A toddler in PJ's kneels at her bedside and folds her hands. A major league baseball player crosses himself as he steps to the plate. A white-haired woman lights a candle, sits in an empty pew, bows her head and weeps.
Prayer. Although practiced in different ways, it is the most familiar discipline of the Christian life. A recent poll found that nearly half of all Americans pray daily, and eighty-one percent pray weekly. Over the years its practitioners have included saints and scoundrels, skeptics and believers, the meek and the mighty, the famous and the infamous, and people of every creed and culture
The earliest prayers in the Bible are intimate dialogues: Adam, conversing with God in the cool of the day; Abraham, dumbfounded that God would grant him children; and Moses, removing his sandals and talking with God from a burning bush.
We conclude worship every week by reciting the Lord's Prayer. The version we use is from Matthew 6. But a second version is found in Luke's Gospel, and Luke's Version is abbreviated in comparison to Matthew. And when I read it to you I guarantee that it'll sound odd - and it has nothing to do with my Oklahoma accent:
11:1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, 'Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.'
2 He said to them, 'When you pray, say, 'Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. 3 Give us each day our daily bread.
4 Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation.'
Have you ever read that version before? It does sound a bit odd, doesn't it? Luke's version is kind of the Reader's Digest Version of the Bible. But, in this section of Luke, Jesus provided a model prayer, - a pattern to follow - and it ...
Series: Teach Us to Pray
Tony Thomas
Luke 11:1-4
A construction worker removes his hat and quietly bows his head at the local McDonald's restaurant. A toddler in PJ's kneels at her bedside and folds her hands. A major league baseball player crosses himself as he steps to the plate. A white-haired woman lights a candle, sits in an empty pew, bows her head and weeps.
Prayer. Although practiced in different ways, it is the most familiar discipline of the Christian life. A recent poll found that nearly half of all Americans pray daily, and eighty-one percent pray weekly. Over the years its practitioners have included saints and scoundrels, skeptics and believers, the meek and the mighty, the famous and the infamous, and people of every creed and culture
The earliest prayers in the Bible are intimate dialogues: Adam, conversing with God in the cool of the day; Abraham, dumbfounded that God would grant him children; and Moses, removing his sandals and talking with God from a burning bush.
We conclude worship every week by reciting the Lord's Prayer. The version we use is from Matthew 6. But a second version is found in Luke's Gospel, and Luke's Version is abbreviated in comparison to Matthew. And when I read it to you I guarantee that it'll sound odd - and it has nothing to do with my Oklahoma accent:
11:1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, 'Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.'
2 He said to them, 'When you pray, say, 'Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. 3 Give us each day our daily bread.
4 Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation.'
Have you ever read that version before? It does sound a bit odd, doesn't it? Luke's version is kind of the Reader's Digest Version of the Bible. But, in this section of Luke, Jesus provided a model prayer, - a pattern to follow - and it ...
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