In the Lord’s prayer, Jesus gives us a guideline as to how to pray. Now, you can just repeat the words and you know we pray the prayer at the beginning of the service. That’s good! It’s done to remind us of what God has taught us to pray. However, the words are, in one sense, a pattern prayer. They tell us how to approach God and what’s needful when we pray. They can also...
42 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.Acts 2.42 And then, he says they continued steadfastly in prayers and that’s the main thing I want to talk about for the rest of the talk today. One of the things I think about is that it’s possible that you may get to a point where you can’t actually...
Traditional Christians have taught that ‘Jews killed Jesus’ and are therefore under a curse from God which goes from generation to generation. Certain verses from the Gospel have been used to perpetuate this lie. Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God...