When did you last have a truly honest conversation, the kind where dawn breaks and you still want to keep talking? This sermon asks an even harder question: when did you last talk with God like that. Starting from the disciples request in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 11), it shows that prayer is not the repeating of formulas but a conversation with a Father you are even allowed to pester. Listen if you want to discover why God sometimes answers yes, sometimes no, and sometimes wait.
Our Father
Teach Us to Pray
Of all the spiritual practices the disciples could have asked Jesus to teach them, they chose this one: prayer. Jesus himself not only taught them how to pray, but through stories and parables he showed how humble and persistent prayer can change reality. “Breaking through to heaven”, that’s how John Ortberg described prayer, and that’s what we’ll seek to learn alongside Jesus’ disciples during Lent.
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