Loading…

The Lord’s Prayer is unavailable, but you can change that!

C. Clifton Black provides a thorough analysis of the most famous prayer in the Christian church, the Lord’s Prayer. He begins with an impressionist painting of how the ancients prayed during Jesus’ time in order to set the context for understanding the prayer he taught his disciples. Throughout the book, Black systematically interprets the rich meanings of each part of the Lord’s prayer....

Alexander III of Macedonia is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time. —Will Cuppy While it is conceptually possible to separate petitions for the coming kingdom (Luke 11:2c = Matt. 6:10a) and the fulfillment of God’s will (Matt. 6:10b), that is theologically ill advised. As we shall see, the notion of divine decree is built into the Greek term usually translated “kingdom”: God’s will is supreme.
Page 105
Buy this book at Logos.com