05 | Praying Like Jesus: Yours is the Glory

 

Matthew 6.9-13

We’re wrapping up our Lord’s Prayer series this Sunday, and we’re commissioning Joel & Estie Parris and the Doxa Church team. Joel and Steve walk us through an overview of where we’ve been in this prayer and create some space for us to practice praying together. In addition, we’ll learn about the Lord’s Prayer Doxology (‘Yours is the kingdom…”). While it isn’t original to the prayer, it has both biblical and historical validity, and it helps us end in confident praise and eager anticipation of the final restoration of all things. God is going to fill this world with his glory and kingdom, forever and ever - and that’s why we plant churches (cue the Doxa team…!).

February 2, 2020 - Steve Hart and Joel Parris

 

04 | Praying Like Jesus: Lead Us

 

Matthew 6.5-14

Like a ship set to sea with no certainty of easy sailing, we move through life with the cruel reality of pain and difficulty. We need guidance and often require deliverance. This is not so much a prayer for safety and security but is instead a prayer for the alignment of God’s purposes in our experiences. This petition is an appeal for God to use the pain of life to build something beautiful, rather than let evil destroy us. It is a prayer of submission to God’s plan, come what may. Our journey may include crashing through treacherous waves but we pray he will deliver us to the still waters of deep harbors.

January 26, 2020 - Gabe Shippam

 

03 | Praying Like Jesus: Give us this Day

 

Matthew 6.5-14

Does prayer work? Most people can point to places in their life where they've felt like prayer doesn't work - things we've asked for, prayed diligently about, and pleaded with God to do have not happened. What do we make of that? In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus urges us to make our needs known (give us this day!), but also shows us where personal requests fit in the larger work of prayer. We're not making requests of a genie in a bottle but of our good and trustworthy Father, and expressing our needs comes after we've aligned ourselves with his kingdom and will. The flow of the prayer is intentional, and as we learn to follow it we'll see that indeed prayer always works!

January 19, 2020 - Steve Hart

 

02 | Praying Like Jesus: Your Kingdom

 

Matthew 6.5-14

This week we continue in our series on the Lord's prayer. This powerful prayer, modeled by Jesus to his disciples instructs us on how to pray. We are invited to pray to our "Heavenly Father" as we are the sons and daughters of the king. We also are reminded that God is "hallowed" and that there is none that compares to him in all the earth. We will consider the question of whether or not we truly long for the Kingdom of God to come to earth. Together we will spend time considering what the kingdom is about, what our part is in bringing the kingdom, and lastly what does it look like when the kingdom of God breaks into our world.

January 12, 2020 - Joel Parris

 

01 | Praying Like Jesus: Our Father

 

Matthew 6.5-14

The Lord's Prayer is, simultaneously, the simplest form of prayer and the deepest expression of prayer's meaning. Simple enough for a child to memorize, the prayer gives us the basic content of every true Christian prayer. Over the month of January, we'll unpack what Jesus means by this prayer, practice it alone and together, and lean toward becoming a praying church. This week we look at 2 pathologies of prayer (religious and pagan praying) before unpacking the first phrase of the prayer itself. "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name" tells us both with whom and to whom we pray, as well as directing us toward the real hope of all Christian praying. Check out this link and join us for a week of prayer: somaspokane.org/prayer

January 5, 2020 - Steve Hart

 

 

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