Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 5: Deliver Us From Evil
This week’s portion of the Lord’s Prayer asks “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” For a long time, my mental picture of “Lead us not into temptation” was someone about to enter a dark, seedy, Bar-of-Iniquity....
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 3: Give Us This Day
The counter-cultural, revolutionary teachings of the Lord’s Prayer continue this week, with the phrase: “Give us this day our daily bread.” Amidst a culture obsessed with finding security in the accumulation of wealth and social status, Jesus is...
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 2: Thy Kingdom Come
What a mind-blowing thing it was when I realized that the Kingdom of God wasn’t about the sweet heavenly hereafter at all: it was something already here and still coming. Jesus said “The Kingdom of God is among you” or “within you.” Once...
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 1: Our Father in Heaven
As we begin our conversation about the Lord’s Prayer this week, I find myself wishing that I could jump in and talk about the larger themes of the prayer. But I can’t, because this week’s phrase — “Our Father in Heaven” —...
