Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 1: Our Father in Heaven
Lawyers love the law. To lawyers, all things are legal. The law makes all things black or white, wrong or right. It makes we into us and them, and creates others of brothers. Lawyers love God, because they believe He hates all the same people they do. When they pray,...
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 1: Our Father in Heaven
Most any clergy person who has prayed with a dying person will confirm the following as a common experience. On a number of occasions I have stood at a bedside sharing prayers with a family saying goodbye to a loved one who is on the threshold between life and death....
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 1: Our Father in Heaven
This week’s focus phrase is on the line, “Our Father in heaven …” Many people have struggled with God being identified in gender-specific language, including myself. We’ll wrestle with some of that this Sunday, so I won’t take up...
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 1: Our Father in Heaven
From Scott: Total confession…perfect for the first of a 6-week series on the Lord’s Prayer: Ahem… I haven’t prayed the Lord’s Prayer in it’s entirety for years. Three reasons. The wording bothers me, I’m not wild about...
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 1: Our Father in Heaven
For many years, my impression of God Our Father was essentially a literal interpretation of the phrase. I thought of God as a supernatural, male father-like being that created the universe and everything within it. God was the supreme, moral being, a divine ruler and...
Blog, Praying for Revolution, Week 1: Our Father in Heaven
I don’t know how many times I have recited the Lord’s Prayer, 1000’s upon 1000’s? This new series on Darkwood Brew will go into depth on the famous prayer. We’ll hear biblical references and historical perspectives and this will all be...
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” —...
