Question #122: What does the first request mean? Answer: "Hallowed be your name" means, Help us to really know you, to bless, worship, and praise you for all your works and for all that shines forth from them: your almighty power, wisdom, kindness, justice, mercy, and truth. And it means, Help us to direct all our living— … Continue reading Catechism #122-123
Author: Daniel Waugh
Catechism #120-121
Question #120: Why did Christ command us to call God "our Father"? Answer: At the very beginning of our prayer Christ wants to kindle in us what is basic to our prayer— the childlike awe and trust that God through Christ has become our Father. Our fathers do not refuse us the things of this life; God … Continue reading Catechism #120-121
Outdated
How much of what you learned in college is outdated now? I recently read this in Learning in Adulthood, It has been estimated that the amount of information in the world doubles every seven years and some have projected that information will soon double every 20 months. Others have speculated that half of what most professionals … Continue reading Outdated
Catechism #118-119
Question #118: What did God command us to pray for? Answer: Everything we need, spiritually and physically, as embraced in the prayer Christ our Lord himself taught us (James 1:17; Matt. 6:33). Question #119: What is this prayer? Answer: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on … Continue reading Catechism #118-119
What to Pray For
Bob's sermon from yesterday (6/26/11) was a wonderful and powerful reminder of the efficacy of prayer. Today I read this quote from Augustine in Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion: God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask of him. There is a great utility in precepts [commands], if all … Continue reading What to Pray For
God Entranced 