In the mornings when I first wake up, I like to lie there quietly and muse with God over His various wonders. This morning, the wonder that first popped into my mind was, “You NEVER fail!” Think about that! Who NEVER fails? Never, ever, ever? Goodness, I fail routinely as a simple matter of everyday life. But God? He never has failed, and He never will fail, and He has had a very long time to do that. Well, time doesn’t exist for God – He has no beginning or end – but

Whew! We have made it to the final post in this series on Praying the Lord’s Prayer. In so doing, we arrive at a line many of us have heard, memorized, and perhaps even assumed was part of the original prayer: “For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.” And yet… depending on the Bible translation in your hands, reading Matthew 6:13, you may notice something surprising: it is either completely absent or placed in a footnote. Or, your church b

Quick review! One day when Jesus was still on the earth, one of His disciples asked Him to teach them to pray: “And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, 'Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.'” — Luke 11:1 If you’ve been with me lately, you know I’ve been writing a series of blog posts based on the outline Jesus taught them, which we have come to refer to as The Lord’s Prayer .

I've been walking us through The Lord's Prayer , and " Give us this day our daily bread " comes just before this, but I did a post on this a couple of months ago: Daily Bread 'n Beyond . So, if you haven't seen that or want to review, just go back! It is absolutely always time to savor the wonder of God's rhythmic, always-on-time provision for all things for us, His "lucky" children! We now come to a line in The Lord’s Prayer that can be both deeply comforting and deeply