Hallowed be your name…
What is in a name…for God, it is everything. It is who He IS.
In Exodus 3 we find Moses standing before the Lord at the burning bush. God just told him that He is going to send him back to Egypt to deliver the people of Israel. Moses asks:
Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am . This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ “
God was to be known by His Name.
After the people cross the Red Sea, Moses sings (Exodus 15) Continue reading The Lord’s Prayer: A Battle Cry (Part 3 of 7)
Yesterday we talked about the nature of the Lord’s Prayer; how it is a battle cry, not a ‘cute’ prayer to say lightly. Today we start the process of diving deeper into the each of the phrases.
To begin with, let us read the prayer as listed in Matthew 6:9-13 (note that it is also listed in Luke 11:2-4).
Our Father in heaven
hallowed be Your Name,
Your kingdom come
Your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread
Forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one
Our Father in heaven….
We speak not to our earthly father – but to the One who made all things. Continue reading The Lord’s Prayer: A Battle Cry (Part 2 of 7)
Walk into any Christian bookstore and you will find tons of nicknacks graced with the words of the Lord Prayer: prayer clothes, posters, ships, pens, table clothes, pictures, etc.
It is said before football games; in prayer meetings around the world…yet for the most part we don’t realize what we are saying. We think it is simply a ‘cute’ prayer – or at the most, a prayer given to us by our Savior.
Yet, it is not a ‘cute’ prayer or simply a prayer model to be followed. It is a battle cry!
An anthem raised up in the middle of darkness for all to see. The picture I see when I think of the Lord’s prayer is the men of Braveheart yelling before the huge army of Britain. Or better yet, it is the cry of Argon and the men of Rodan as the ride from Helm’s Deep into the massive army of Orcs. Continue reading The Lord’s Prayer: A Battle Cry (Part 1 of 7)
I was browsing the shelves of my local library when I came across Yan Sen-Fu’s book about Nestorian Christianity in China. Talk about a find! It was awesome. 
Nestorianism is a fairly unknown branch of Christianity – at least in the West. They broke off from mainline Christianity in 431 A.D. when the First Council of Ephesus declared the teachings of Nestorius, Archbishop of Constantinople, about the nature of Jesus to be heretical (ie. did Jesus have one or two natures?). As a result, the followers of Nestorius turned eastward to Persia, India and China.
Before I go on, I think it is worth noting that I don’t think the teachings of Nestorius where really “heretical”. I think it was mostly a political move by the other bishops to gain control over the church as the Coptic Church was “kicked” out in a similar move in 451 AD. But, that is just my view. 
Back to Yang Sen-Fu’s book – It was originally written in Chinese and was translated into English by Dr. Herbert Hatcher in 2007. As a result, the book was a tad hard to understand as the wording didn’t always work out… but the essence of the book translated well. Continue reading A History of Nestorian Christianity In China by Yang Sen-Fu
It is hard to imagine that Requisite Danger has been down for almost a month… yet, it has. Much saddness.
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