Tag: Prayer
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In Heaven
Who is in the heavens? What we have here is a definite article (who is) followed by a preposition (in) followed by another definite article (the) Ho En Tois (who is in the) Ourenois (heavens) If you sound out how it looks, it’s almost poetry. We can shorten it to Our Father in Heaven. We…
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Father
The second word of the Lord’s prayer is Father. Oh what a word! It is wrought with human potential for beauty and love and tenderness and for some it is wrought with fear, neglect, absence. But ultimately the noun is most prone to our projection. I will dive in further in a moment, but I…
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Ours
“When you pray,” He said. “Pray like this,” He said. Our… Two things, He did not put a timetable on how often, how many times a day or an exact moment of when. It’s just when. Yes, Paul writes, pray without ceasing, encouraging the conversation to keep going without end. The other thing is the…
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Watching, Waiting, Woes: Habakkuk 2
It might be hard to believe or receive, but one could make the case that prayer is the most effective gift given to humanity to bring about change. Some would rather attribute change to talent, charisma, and strong work ethic, but more often than not, it is the prayers of those in right standing with…
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Young Camel Knees
It was Eugene Peterson, who in the introduction to his Message translation of the book of James that taught me the nickname for the apostle James, the brother of Jesus, was “Old Camel Knees.” The nickname, which I think cute, was given to him because the amount of time he spent in prayer. The theory…
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We are not in the Wind, We are the Wind
What an interesting time for an interesting and interested God. A God that is not idle but who remains an eternal intercessor in Christ. A God that we may feel is silent about circumstance yet still resounds about who He is. John 3:8 reads “The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound…
The Reconstructed 