Weekly Blog
Mar 31, 2021
What is the first request in the Lord’s Prayer and what does it teach us regarding prayer?
The first request is “Hallowed be your name.” In it we learn to pray that God will enable us to glorify Him in everything, and that He will work all things for the honor of His own Name.
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Mar 24, 2021
What is the preface to the Lord’s Prayer and what does it teach us?
The preface to the Lord’s Prayer is “Our Father in heaven.” It teaches us that God is our Father in Christ, so we should approach Him with reverence and confidence, as children to their father, and that we should pray with and for others.
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Mar 17, 2021
What are the words of the Lord’s Prayer?
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
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Mar 10, 2021
Where do we learn how to pray?
The whole word of God teaches us how to pray, particularly in the Psalms and other prayers recorded in Scripture, and especially in the model prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, commonly known as the Lord’s Prayer.
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Mar 03, 2021
What is the proper attitude in prayer?
We should pray with love for God and our neighbor, perseverance, gratitude, humble submission to God’s will, and faith, knowing that God always hears our prayers because of Christ.
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Feb 17, 2021
Why is prayer necessary for Christians?
God commands us to pray because it is a constant reminder of our need for God and His grace, and He has promised to hear and answer our prayers as we come to Him properly.
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Feb 10, 2021
What is prayer?
Prayer is conversation with God in which believers pour out our hearts to God in the name of Christ in adoration, confession of sin, thanksgiving, and supplication, and through which our desires are changed to conform with the will of God.
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Feb 03, 2021
What is meant by the words ‘until He comes’ in reference to the Lord’s Supper?
The words ‘until He comes’ teach us that Jesus will return again, and we will eat and drink with Him in the consummated Kingdom. This is the joy and blessed hope of all believers.
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Jan 27, 2021
What is the proper way to receive the Lord’s Supper?
The Lord’s Supper must be received in faith with thanksgiving by those who have confessed and repented of their sins. Those who receive the meal in this manner are assured of the forgiveness of their sins and receive grace to strengthen them in the faith, but those who do not come properly eat and drink judgment on themselves.
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Jan 20, 2021
Do the bread and wine actually become the very blood and body of Christ?
No. The bread and wine are symbols of His body and blood, His redeeming life and death for us, and they unite us to Christ and all of His saving benefits when received properly.
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