Posts with the category “our-father”

Our Starting Place
March 10th, 2025
"Confident and effective prayer begins with 'Our Father.' We start here. We can go no further until we know Him as Father. This precious truth should be carried into all our requests." - John Smed...  Read More
by Jason Deroon
If God is Father...
March 9th, 2025
"We pray to a God of mercy sitting on a throne of grace. God's children should, in all their troubles, run to their heavenly Father. Surely God, who hears the cry of ravens, will hear the cry of His...  Read More
by Jason Deroon
An Example
March 8th, 2025
These are not just words. This is not just prayer. This is an example of life lived with God as Father....  Read More
by Jason Deroon
Bonhoeffer's Prayer
March 7th, 2025
"It is neither the formula nor the number of words but faith that reaches God in His fatherly heart." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer...  Read More
by Jason Deroon
The Best Father
March 6th, 2025
Thomas Watson offers some answers to why we can consider God as the 'best father'....  Read More
by Jason Deroon
Adopted
March 5th, 2025
Simply thinking, treating, or calling someone 'father' doesn't mean they will treat you like their child. There is a vast difference between approaching God as a slave or as a son....  Read More
by Jason Deroon
Luther's Our Father
March 4th, 2025
"To this day I am still suckling on the Lord’s Prayer like a child and am still eating and drinking of it like an old man without growing weary of it. I regard it as the best of prayers.…" - Martin L...  Read More
by Jason Deroon