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The first three requests in the Lord’s Prayer focus on the Father— his name, his reign, his will. Most of our prayers start in the middle of this prayer—with our own needs. Jesus doesn’t ignore our needs. He just puts them in the right priority. So we turn to the request, “Give us today our

We think of earthly kingdoms in terms of territory—an empire. In the New Testament the kingdom of God is not territory. The term is used to describe the reign of God. God’s kingdom today extends over the hearts of all who will acknowledge him as king and who will submit to his rule. They are

What we have come to call the Lord’s Prayer was spoken in the middle of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount—a long talk Jesus gave about how to live distinctively as a Christian in an evil world. Jesus gave the prayer to his followers in the context of some very practical words on when and where and how

This section of Scripture takes us into the saddest days of history. With Judas’s help the nation’s leaders completed their plot to kill the Son of God. But these days are also the greatest days on earth for Jesus. He has accomplished his life mission, and he confirmed to the Twelve that they

In today’s permissive culture people are told that what they do with their bodies in terms of sex is irrelevant. They say, “Sex is just one of our instincts, so what is wrong with sexual gratification?” This chapter of Proverbs contains the wisdom of God about marriage and avoiding the adultery