January 23, 2015
“Hallo
wed” is an unusual word and on the “Words with Friends” word usage scale, it finds itself far on the right side of the rare continuum. Most of us don’t find ourselves using this word at the water fountain conversations at work! However, in Matthew 6:9 the first line of the Lord’s Prayer is, “Our Father who are in Heaven, hallowed be your name.”
What does it mean to hallow? And whose is this name that we are to hallow? Very simply, to hallow means to set apart, make holy, and sanctify…
January 17, 2015
Life is a combination of many things, including the combination of simple things and spectacular things, boring things, breathtaking things, average things and awesome things, ordinary things and extraordinary. However, for many, myself included at times, it is easier to focus on the simple rather than the spectacular, our present temporal circumstances rather than our future eternal circumstances as if this world were our home.
Yet, the Lord’s Prayer, as written in Matthew 6:9-13, encourages us to think of the simple and spectacular through an everyday and eternal lens:
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