Lord, Teach Us to Pray: A Study of the Lord's Prayer

What is prayer? How does it work? What is happening when we pray? Why can’t I seem to do it more often or more consistently? Can I do it better? All of these questions and more get wrapped up into one request that a disciple had for Jesus. He said, “Lord, teach us to pray” (Luke 11:1). Jesus responds by teaching all of his disciples what has come to be known as the Lord’s Prayer.

In this study, we will look closely at the Lord’s Prayer and what it teaches us about the nature and power of prayer in the life of a Christian. This prayer is a gift to believers for shaping our own prayers and reshaping how we understand and relate to the world around us. Remember that the request wasn’t what we should pray, but “teach us to pray”. While we can and do pray this prayer from memory, Jesus taught it as a pattern for his disciples to follow. If our desire is to learn more about prayer, we can do no better than to sit under the teaching of Jesus.

10 am Sundays  I  Cafeteria

The Life of Christ According to Luke

Beginning October 1

"Who do you say that I am?" This is the question that Jesus asked Peter and the disciples as he revealed himself as the Son of the living God. Indeed, this is the question that each of us must answer today.

C.S. Lewis pointed out that Jesus as simply a 'Great Moral Teacher' wasn't an option he left open for us. He says, "A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said...either is the son of God: or else a madman or something worse.” So where can we go to seek out an answer?

Join Daniel Emery Price and Erick Sorensen, co-hosts of "30 Minutes in the New Testament," as they guide us through the acts, teaching, death, and resurrection of Jesus according to the Gospel of Luke.

6:15 pm Wednesday  I  Faith & Family Room