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The Lord’s Prayer
Vol. 2, No. 4 • Jul/Aug 1993
In his classic, The Odyssey, Homer’s hero, Odysseus, must make his journey home past the isle of the Sirens. Hypnotizing sailors with their irresistible melodies, the Sirens drew the unsuspecting into destruction. Those sailors who thought they were up to the challenge soon discovered that they did not possess the powers of resistance required. Knowing […]
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Our Father In Heaven
In his classic, The Odyssey, Homer’s hero, Odysseus, must make his journey home past the isle of the Sirens. Hypnotizing sailors with their irresistible melodies, the Sirens drew the unsuspecting into destruction. Those sailors who thought they were up to the challenge soon discovered that they did not possess the powers of resistance required. Knowing […]
Thy Kingdom Come
The second petition of our Lord’s Prayer is a simple and yet dramatic one: “Thy Kingdom come.” Our Lord tells us that we are to pray that God’s kingdom (literally, God’s rule, or reign) come in some sense in which God’s kingdom is not already present. Here we catch a glimpse of one of the […]
Give Us Today Our Daily Bread
After robbing a market, one of the arrested youths involved in the crime simply replied, “If you don’t look out for yourself, who will?” The root of theft is the failure to trust God as a provider. “But how can I trust God?” asks the homeless person who lost everything in a bad business deal, […]
A Glossary of Terms
Amillennialism: A belief that the Bible does not predict a period of the rule of Christ on earth before the last judgment. According to this outlook there will be a continuous development of good and evil in the world until the second coming of Christ, when the dead shall be raised and the judgment conducted. […]
Forgive Us Our Trespasses
“Oh, I forgive you as a Christian, of course; but there are some things one can never forget!” This line comes from C. S. Lewis’s book The Great Divorce. While it is spoken in heaven, the character who speaks it is from hell. Lewis’s point is that in heaven no one dares to think like […]
Lead Us Not Into Temptation
In order to get a proper understanding of this or any of the petitions contained in “Lord’s Prayer” it is necessary to understand the context in which Jesus is offering these prayer instructions. From the very outset of his instruction Jesus uses the medium of contrast in outlining our relationships with God. Therefore, we see […]
