27 th July 2025 This passage begins with what is surely one of the most familiar parts of the New Testament and of our own Christian lives. Today it is in its less familiar form: Luke’s version of the Lord’s Prayer. We are more used to using the Matthew version both in our public worship and I suspect because of that in our own prayer lives. It is good in our worship to take time and think about what we are doing when we pray. My own view is that on one level it is instinctive and sometimes a little self centred. Yes, when going into a busy car park in a hurry I am likely to send up an arrow prayer and say something like please God let there be a space! Such prayers are perhaps a normal response to a stressful situation, but they are not the entirety of our prayer lives. True prayer can feel illusive a quite difficult. It is an aspect of our relationship with God and like all r...
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