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Comment on Lord Teach Us to Pray: Part 6 by Jeanie Harris

Jeanie Harris — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:19:39 +0000

These all have been so meaningful! Like learning it in my heart for the first time.
I am glad to learn my thoughts on temptations, tests, etc. are on the right track.
Yes! We need: for Thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory forever, amen!

Comment on Lord Teach Us to Pray: Part 2 by Acts242 » Lord Teach Us to Pray: Part 4

Acts242 » Lord Teach Us to Pray: Part 4 — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:35:22 +0000

[...] us” not, “give me”. This continues the theme of “Our Father” that we discussed in our second post and suggests that we should not just focus on our own needs but our community as a whole. This [...]

Comment on Shema by Acts242 » Lord Teach Us to Pray: Part 2

Acts242 » Lord Teach Us to Pray: Part 2 — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:32:16 +0000

[...] God can hear us when we speak to Him. It is also interesting to note that the name of God, the tetragrammaton or YHVH, was not used in His model prayer and in fact was never used by Jesus. Out of fear and [...]

Comment on “Our Father” by Acts242 » Lord Teach Us to Pray: Part 2

Acts242 » Lord Teach Us to Pray: Part 2 — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:27:42 +0000

[...] that we can say both individually and corporately, “Our Father”. For further study, see also “Our Father”. It is interesting, in light of His own deity, that Jesus didn’t tell his disciples to pray [...]

Comment on Between the Stones by Acts242 » Lord Teach Us to Pray: Part 3

Acts242 » Lord Teach Us to Pray: Part 3 — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:08:56 +0000

[...] are unable to add anything to the equation, yet He demands our obedience. We live our daily lives between these two stones. This tension is exemplified in the phrase, “on earth as it is in heaven”. Our lives here on [...]

Comment on “Our Father” by Acts242 » Lord Teach Us to Pray: Part 2

Acts242 » Lord Teach Us to Pray: Part 2 — Thu, 09 May 2013 22:48:20 +0000

[...] The prayer that Jesus taught His disciples begins with the phrase, “Our Father who is in Heaven” (in Hebrew, “Avinu sh’ba Shamayim”). This reflects Jewish tradition and the Eastern mindset because it says, “Our Father”, instead of “My Father”. Instead of focusing on our individual needs, Jewish prayers emphasize community needs and prayers for the group as a whole. It is interesting, in light of His own deity, that Jesus didn’t tell his disciples to pray to Him or to use Him as a mediator to God and call to God in His name. Even when we are praying individually, “Our Father” is still proper because no Christian is praying alone. We are all members of God’s household and are adopted into a distinctive union of God’s people, so that we can say both individually and corporately, “Our Father”. For further study, see also “Our Father”. [...]

Comment on Lord Teach Us to Pray by Acts242 » Lord Teach Us to Pray: Part 2

Acts242 » Lord Teach Us to Pray: Part 2 — Thu, 09 May 2013 22:45:07 +0000

[...] our opening post we learned that Jesus and His disciples would have prayed three times a day to their Lord in [...]

Comment on Tamarisk Tree by Marcia

Marcia — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:03:17 +0000

I am also studying Genesis and I had to stop for some reason to search for the meaning of this Tamarisk tree. There is something to say about trees and how incredible they are just by itself. In a more simple way to look at this passage I remember throughout my childhood my parents planting lots and lots of trees and i know that there many this day that are enjoying the fruits of their labor.
Resently my husband gave me a garden, in the backyard of our house we live in for 20 years, with 28 trees in it. All I can say is that I never felt so connected to this placed as I do now. Maybe there is more to understand and learn about trees. We were made to live in a garden so maybe inside of us trees make us feel like home (where the tree of live is).

Comment on Shema – Part 3 by Drew

Drew — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:29:43 +0000

I thought I would drop you a line and let you know the answer to this question, “He then added what most of us would have thought was a new twist to their thinking when he continued, “And you shall love your neighbor as yourself… Was this a new idea from our rabbi?”

Jesus was actually repeating what was a common teaching from the Rabbi Hillel, a famous Rabbi and the teacher of Gamaliel, Paul’s Rabbi. So is it any wonder Paul continued in this thinking.

If you will spend some time reviewing all the gospel accounts of this teaching from Jesus you will find He is not teaching an original thought but being tested to see which school (Hillel or Shammai) He was affirming.

Keep looking up!

Comment on All of Life is Sacred by Acts242 » To Pray Without Ceasing

Acts242 » To Pray Without Ceasing — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:17:14 +0000

[...] A great lesson that is a companion to this story is, ”All of Life is Sacred” and conveys some of these same [...]