Tag: prayer
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prayer, obedience, and growth
Biblical Text: Mark 6.44-52 Today’s lectionary reading comes from Mark’s Gospel, a text that barely pauses to take a breath as it describes Jesus’s ministry. Mark doesn’t give us any birth narrative, but starts with John the Baptist proclaiming Jesus, and then wham, Jesus is here. Baptised, tempted, and beginning his ministry. Miracle follows miracle,…
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knock knock…
Biblical Text: Luke 11v1-13 We talk a lot about prayer as Christians, so I want to take a moment to consider one of Jesus’s brief mentions of prayer in the Gospels, specifically Luke 11. It’s worth noting that although prayer is clearly important for Jesus – he teaches his disciples to pray, he goes away…
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persisting in prayer…
Biblical Texts: Genesis 18v20-32, Luke 11v1-13 Jesus prays. That might seem like an odd statement, but throughout Luke’s gospel, he tells us repeatedly that Jesus withdraws from everything that’s going on, and he prays. We don’t know how long it took, but after a while his disciples asked him to teach them to do the…
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a foundational prayer
Biblical Texts: Psalm 117, Luke 11v1-4 Today’s passage in Luke is so familiar it can easily go by unnoticed. For those of us in church regularly, we say this prayer so often it can become automatic. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s good to know things by heart, but sometimes it pays to slow…