See Matthew 6:5-15
See Matthew 6:5-15
You cannot pray the Lord’s Prayer and even once say “I.”
You cannot pray the Lord’s Prayer and even once say “My.”
Nor can you pray the Lord’s Prayer and not pray for one another.
And when you ask for daily bread, you must include your brother.
For others are included … in each and every plea,
From the beginning to the end of it, it doesn’t once say “Me.”‘
(Anon)…
Matthew 6:5-15
Text: Mark 10:46-52
Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem. There he would suffer many things. He must be killed and after three days rise again. But what of the people travelling with him, and those he meets on the way?
In 10:13-16 the disciples rebuked those who brought little children to Jesus, but he said, “Let them come to me, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.”
In 10:17-31 a wealthy young man asks Jesus, “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” …
Text: Psalm 32
Happiness is ‘…an unexpected piece of chocolate’, ‘…Friday’; ‘…being married to your best friend’.
Here is the biblical answer.
‘Don’t be negative’. ‘I know I’m not perfect’. ‘Don’t go to church to be told I’m a sinner, I go to to be comforted, to be uplifted’.
Synonyms: rebellion, wandering away, twistedness.
How ridiculous to think that we can hide our sin from the all-seeing eye of God. Yet ever since the days of Adam and Eve people have been trying to do precisely that.…
Although one can have faith without assurance, belief without confidence, nevertheless assurance of salvation is much to be desired. It provides comfort and strength in challenging times. So writes J.C. Ryle:-
1. Assurance will help a man to bear poverty and loss. It will teach him to say, “I know that I have in heaven a better and more enduring substance. Silver and gold have I none, but grace and glory are mine, and these can never make themselves wings and flee away.
Kent Dobson, who succeeded Rob Bell as pastor of influential Mars Hill Bible Church, has recently announced his decision to step down.
He had begun, he says, with a desire to follow Paul by offering the traditional gospel in culturally-relevant dress. But he had come to question not only the packaging as traditionally offered by the church, but also the message.
…“I have always been and I’m still drawn to the very edges of religion and faith and God.
In the run-up to Christmas, the Church of England hoped to place a 60-second advert – a presentation of the Lord’s Prayer – in cinemas around the UK.
But Digital Cinema Media – the advertising agency responsible for advertising in 80% of the cinemas across the country – has decided that it won’t be showing the advert after all. It has a policy, it says, of ‘not accepting political or religious advertising’. It added that ‘some adverts could cause offence to those of different faiths or of no faith.’…
This is not the time for theological pontification about the appalling terrorist attacks that killed or injured nearly 500 people in Paris less than two days ago.
Mike Evans, who has lived and ministered in France since 1963, suggests that Christians should respond in the following ways:-
Families have lost loved ones. Many individuals have suffered life-changing injuries. Pray for the churches in the Paris area, as they reach out to the victims of these horrific attacks. …
