Growing in Kingdom Character

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.  For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Is there anyone among you...

Practicing the Discipline of Simplicity

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do...

How to Fast Properly

“When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that i...

Deliver Us from the Evil One

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

Matt 6:13

The Lord’s Prayer is meant to be our primer and pattern of prayer. Often, we struggle with what to say when coming to God in prayer. Christ’s sample prayer helps us w...

Our Daily Bread

Give us today our daily bread (Matt 6:11)

One of the great lessons of the Lord’s Prayer is for us to seek God’s interests first and then our interests. We should come before God seeking that his name be hallowed, his kingdom come, and his will be done. Th...

Your Will Be Done

“Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matt 6:10b)

In Matthew 6:9-13, Christ teaches his disciples the Lord’s Prayer. It is the ideal prayer—meant to be the Christian’s primer and pattern. It is not that a Christian cannot pray without going...

Your Kingdom Come

Matt 6:10a

In the Lord’s Prayer, Christ teaches his disciples how to pray. Though the disciples had probably prayed their whole lives, they still struggled with it and were confused about it. We’re often like that as well.

Christ teaches that our first p...

Hallowed Be Your Name

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name…

Matthew 6:9b

In Matthew 6:9-13, Christ gives his disciples a pattern of prayer. It is not meant to be repeated verbatim, though there is nothing wrong with doing so, as long our heart and mind are engaged...

Our Father in Heaven

“This, then, is how you should pray: “‘Our Father in heaven…

Matthew 6:9a

How should believers pray?

In Matthew 6:5-8, Christ began to teach his followers how to pray: He commanded them to not pray like the hypocrites, who pray long prayers with vain r...

Practicing Radical Generosity

“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in t...