This was a blog from last year, 15th December. As it falls into my blog series I am reblogging it. Please note that in that blog I said that this was the only part of the Lord's prayer that Jesus commented on. If you have followed these recent blogs you will know that in Luke's …
Author: SteveP
I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
Forgive
Being a Christian is not easy. It is never easy even in a western Christianised society, and I would not be like the Apostle Paul and suggest you imitate me as I imitate Christ, because I am not a good role model. The following Jesus thing is something I fail at from time to time, …
Prayer Without Words | The Sound
I came across this on Saturday evening. As my current blogs are on saying the Lord's Prayer, I found this on silent prayer complementary, if more traditional than my usual churchmanship. Amid white noise of day that protects this frail solitude I tatter soil-edged pages of my prayer book opening to empty places praying word-for-word …
Daily
You can't always get what you want. News has just come out that Ricky Wilson of Kaiser Chiefs, Steve Harley, KT Tunstall and David Gray were among musicians who teamed up with British Members of Parliament and the Royal Opera House Thurrock Community Chorus to record a charity version of the song in memory of …
Give
'Tis the season to be thinking about giving. The tradition of Christmas gifts is one I like, finding the right gift can be a difficult thing though, people are difficult to please. Actually they are not. People are easy to please, we just tie ourselves in knots trying too hard. People like gifts as it …
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/gods.plans.are.bigger.better.and.yes.scarier.than.yours/101838.htm
I reblogged this as it was published at the same time as my blog last Friday, and saying it better. As Christians, we believe that God's will is good, pleasing and perfect and that it always works out for our good. But that doesn't mean that we aren't going to be challenged even by our …
Earth
The future breaks into the present. My parents in law used to live in Ripon, North Yorkshire. A family visit to them meant also a visit to Lightwater Valley theme park. Much to our youngest daughters disappointment many of the rides were height restricted, and while her older siblings were allowed to ride the scary …
God’s will
Your will be done The Lords Prayer — Part 8 We pray for God's will to be done. But what exactly is God's will? Not just the big picture, but the small problem of what does God want me to do. But first back to basics. Jesus' summed up the commandments as love God with …
Kingdom
Your kingdom come The Lord's Prayer — Part 7 Dictionary.com defines Kingdom as: a state or government having a king or queen as its head. 2. anything conceived as constituting a realm or sphere of independent action or control: the kingdom of thought. 3. a realm or province of nature, especially one of the three broad divisions …
Praise
Praise comes first The Lord's Prayer — Part 6 Watching a beautiful sunset it is easy to be full of praise, especially if you are in the Cafe del Mar in Ibiza, listening to the chill out electronica and sipping a very expensive cocktail. This should be on everyone's bucket list. I have done that, and …
Making an ass of myself 