In the last week of June I had the opportunity to speak at Family Camp 2 for Fort Wilderness in McNaughton, Wisconsin. If you're not familiar with Fort, you should definitely consider their amazing range of ministry opportunities throughout the year. Every Winter our Student Ministries takes a group for Winter Retreat up in this …
Praying as a Forgiver [30 Days of Prayer]
“And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.” (Matthew 6:12) The second part of the words on forgiveness in the Lord’s Prayer relates to the way we treat others. Notice that there is no exhortation here to pray that God would help us to forgive others. No, there is merely the …
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Praying for Forgiveness [30 Days of Prayer]
“And forgive us our debts” (Matthew 6:12a) The fifth petition of the Lord’s Prayer centers upon our relationship with God and with others. Specifically, it is a request for forgiveness. This request forces us to recognize that often we are not the sort of people we would like to be, others would like us to …
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Give Us Our Daily Bread [30 Days of Prayer]
“Give us today our daily bread.” (Matthew 6:11) The first three petitions of the Lord’s prayer orient us with God at the center in prayer. With the next three petitions, however, the pronouns switch from ‘You’ and ‘Your’ to ‘us’ and ‘our.’ This switch reminds us that prayer is not only about God in heaven …
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Hallowed Be Your Name [30 Days of Prayer]
“This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name’” (Matthew 6:9) If one of the first steps of prayer that we must work out is to whom we are praying, then one of the next steps is to understand who we are in prayer. When Jesus teaches His disciples to …
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Matthew Erickson 