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The Parables: The Persistent Widow Updated: 2011-06-29 17:32:47 Description: The parable of the widow and the judge, the persistent widow. At a quick glance, the parable seems to illustrate the teaching, ‘Show persistence in prayer and get a speedy answer.’ Well that’s easy! Finished! Time to go home!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Kingdom, The Power and the Glory Updated: 2007-09-24 16:54:09 Description: Our Lord's pattern is the Hebrew pattern of prayer and worship kept together. The petitions are balanced and strengthened by reminding ourselves of the power and glory of our heavenly Father. Having just looked at the great dangers and evils that sur...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Deliver Us From Evil Part 2 Updated: 2007-09-24 16:51:14 Description: The driving force behind the desire for leadership is the desire for power; power over people, power to influence and change lives, power to rule and direct. Like so many things, such power is two edged, it can be channelled and used for great good o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Deliver Us From Evil Part 1 Updated: 2007-09-24 16:49:16 Description: We live in a world that is at the same time glorious and tragic. It is a wonderful world with so much that is noble, pure and breathtakingly beautiful; but it is also a fallen world, a world shot through with suffering and injustice, malice and evil....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lead Us Not Into Temptation Updated: 2007-09-24 16:47:15 Description: 'Heavenly Father, lead us not into temptation.' Who or what can tempt us? What are the sources of temptation? From the prayer itself, logically, the first answer must be - God. God our heavenly Father may lead us into temptation. He will not entice u...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD As We Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us Updated: 2007-09-24 16:44:54 Description: We look now at the second part, 'As we forgive those who trespass against us.' At first sight it seems as if the Lord is teaching that we can earn or deserve God's forgiveness if we forgive others. But can it mean that? Could we ever earn forgiveness...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Forgive Us Our Trespasses Part 2 Updated: 2007-09-24 16:42:20 Description: Like all these petitions, the prayer for forgiveness is set in the Lord's Prayer in the plural. Although our heavenly Father chooses to deal with us one by one, we are set in communities. Like a stone thrown into a pond, we begin with personal confes...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread Updated: 2007-09-24 16:36:58 Description: We are taught to pray for bread, not just for ourselves and our own comfort, but bread that we might be free from anxious care and so free to live for the glory of our heavenly Father. We are taught to pray for forgiveness and for a willingness to fo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD As It Is In Heaven Updated: 2007-09-24 16:33:55 Description: The Lord teaches us to pray that our heavenly Father's will might be done here, on earth, as it is done in heaven. Here, we long to see God's name honoured and yet see it so often trodden underfoot. We long to see God's kingdom come and yet see the f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Your Will Be Done Part 2 Updated: 2007-09-24 16:30:22 Description: As we look at this great petition, we must begin and end with personal holiness of living, living a life that is worthy of the gospel. And yet, perhaps, like a guest in a great house, caught and challenged by our reflection in a great mirror we move ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Your Will Be Done Part 1 Updated: 2007-09-24 16:26:52 Description: As we are led into the last of the three great state rooms of this royal house of prayer, we find ourselves in an awesome and holy place, a place where we come face to face with both the ecstasy and the anguish of true godliness, a place where heaven...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Your Kingdom Come Updated: 2007-09-24 16:21:46 Description: Firstly, the kingdom comes here on earth where God the Father and his Son, the Lord Jesus, are honoured. As Jesus came to his own people, he said, 'The kingdom of God is among you.' He is the gateway, the door of the kingdom, he is the source of our ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Hallowed Be Your Name Updated: 2007-09-17 18:44:59 Description: Beginning in this chapter with just the first of these petitions, when we pray, 'Hallowed be thy name,' or, 'May your name be honoured,' what do we mean? We know the line so well and recite it so easily, and yet do we really appreciate the weight and...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Our Father in Heaven Updated: 2007-09-12 00:00:57 Description: The Lord's Prayer is recorded in the gospels of both Matthew and Luke. In Matthew it is part of the teaching in the Sermon on the Mount concerning godly giving, praying and fasting. In Luke it is a response to the disciples' request to teach them to ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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