Jesus' prayer thus far has taken us on a journey that radically decentralizes the "self".  We are called to approach God not first of all in a spirit of "gab",…

The first "requests" of the Lord's Prayer are three, set in parallel: Hallowed be Thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done Parallelism is a common rhetorical device in…

Now that we've got the "To Whom" we pray part down ("Our Father who art in heaven"), Jesus begins to teach us the "For What" of prayer.  And it is…

"Our Father, who art in heaven..." is how Jesus begins his teaching on prayer.  Interesting that Jesus thinks it's important that we know the location of the God to whom…

The rabid individualism of our culture infects and spoils our lives in a myriad of ways, not least in the life of prayer.  We are told that we need to…

What is your view of God like?  Austere, remote, distant?  Unapproachable, unimaginable, vague?  Micromanaging, autocratic, tyrannical?  Petty, fault-finding, judgmental?  Angry, ill-tempered, irascible?  Disinterested, dispassionate, impersonal? How we see God will…

Very often, when folks are learning to pray for the first time (as little kids, or as new believers, or as longtime believers relatively new to the life of prayer,…

I love to pray. When I was a kid, I started praying by compiling a prayer list - names of folks who I desired to see know Jesus (family and…