Sermons on Prayer
Pray for One Another
James gives us a picture of the church as a praying community—not a place where prayer is merely a phrase we use when we don’t know what else to say, but a family where life is brought honestly before God together.When someone is suffering, they pray. When someone is cheerful, they praise. When someone is weak or sick, they ask for help. When sin is present, it is confessed. And through it all, brothers and sisters pray for one another…
Our Daily Bread
We come to the part of this beautiful prayer where Jesus leads us to express our needs. There are three requests–Give us our bread, forgive us our debts, and lead us not into temptation–and we’ll consider the first one tomorrow. The one about the bread is the only one that has to do with physical needs, and it’s very brief. You’ll notice there’s nothing extraordinary there–no requests for luxuries, obviously, and not even a request for something more than simply…
