Our FATHER in Heaven

There are three possibilities in understanding spiritual warfare.

When you’re tempted, it feels like you’re standing at a crossroad and in front of you are two paths.

Philo of Alexandria – a Jewish contemporary philosopher in Jesus’ time – writes that “there has never been a single man who, by his own unassisted power, has run the whole course of his life, from the beginning to the end, without stumbling.”

To pray “for our daily bread” is to ask God to meet our daily needs, as well as the needs of others.

In the gospels, Jesus’ miracles proved more than just show God’s power and God’s love. They proved that God’s kingdom had arrived. What does that kingdom look like?

The first thing Jesus teaches us to ask in the Lord’s Prayer is for God’s name to be “hallowed.”

When Jesus teaches us to pray to our Father “in heaven”, some think this means that God is distant, far removed from the realities and challenges of our everyday lives. However, the phrase “in heaven” actually means the exact opposite. It means that God is NEAR, and God is ABLE!

You and I are created for community, so when community breaks down, so do we.