Our Father

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"Thy Kingdom Come"

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Preparing to participate in the reign of God means laying aside our own schemes for building our little kingdoms and organizing our worlds the way we would like them to be. To herald the coming of God’s kingdom means confessing the provisional nature of our plans and welcoming the death of our private authority, our myth of “self-rule.” In Christ, disciples share in God’s reign, not vice versa.

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"Hallowed Be Thy Name"

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To remember and revere the name of God requires us to cherish and be grateful for God’s saving action. God makes himself known to us through what he does for us. The presence and action of God is complete in Jesus Christ.

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Beginning Again with the Lord’s Prayer

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I want to help us begin again with the Lord’s prayer – taking on a different approach and a new perspective. I want to see if you and I can learn how to humble ourselves in praying this prayer so that we may be formed by it. This is the prayer to “Our Father,” which means that by praying it we are, above all, allowing ourselves to be his children. That is the gift Jesus gives us: he gives us his Father as our Father.