Kim Matheson on the Power of Prayer and the Lord's Prayer (week of Jan. 20, first to listen to)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Kerry and Kim explore the Lord's prayer, and what we can learn from it. They explore how that prayer demonstrates the way we need to be and what we can learn and become from prayer. They explore the power of prayer in general, and how it affects our relationship with God.
We are grateful for our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and for Alexia Muhlestein, who edited this episode, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the scriptures are real. |
| 0:10.5 | This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have made them become more real to us because we believe we can draw more power out of them when that happens. |
| 0:18.3 | And we need all the help we can get. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm your host, Kerry Mielstein, and I'm so excited to have back with me, someone that we had with us last year to |
| 0:26.1 | talk about Elijah and his experience with the still small voice and so on, that First King's story. |
| 0:34.3 | We have with us Kim Matheson, who's a good friend of mine, was a student of mine many years ago. |
| 0:39.3 | I guess that shows how old I am, has done some work at both Harvard and Denver, and is now working at the Neleham Institute for religious scholarship, I think, is the full name at BYU. And so we're just thrilled |
| 0:55.8 | to have you with us, Kim. Thanks and welcome back. Oh, thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. |
| 1:00.5 | Tell us a little bit more about yourself. What else should we know about you? |
| 1:04.6 | It might be helpful to know where or end in what I got my PhD training. So I think it would, |
| 1:10.6 | especially for today's conversation. |
| 1:12.2 | So yeah. |
| 1:13.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.5 | I just this past summer graduated with a PhD in theology from Loyola University in Chicago. |
| 1:20.5 | And my dissertation actually was on prayer. |
| 1:23.4 | And that's going to be relevant to what has been very real for me for many years in the |
| 1:27.6 | Sermont on the Mount. So was I wrong when I said Denver? You were at Denver, too, or am I wrong? I don't remember any times in Denver. Okay. So scratch that from the record. Chicago. That's right. Chicago. All right. We don't even need to scratch you from the record. It's good for my audience to know that I just have a bad memory sometime. I don't know how I got Denver stuck in my head. But anyway, yeah, |
| 1:47.4 | Chicago, that's... We don't even need to scratch you from the record. It's good for my audience to know that I just have a bad memory sometime. |
| 1:44.5 | I don't know how I got Denver stuck in my head. |
| 1:46.8 | But anyway, yeah, Chicago, that's right. |
| 1:48.6 | As soon as you said that I knew that. |
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