Our Father in Heaven
White Horse Inn
Sola Media
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Although prayer is something we do, the way we pray reflects our understanding of who God is. In this episode of White Horse Inn, Justin Holcomb and Bob Hiller are joined by special guest pastor Adriel Sanchez as they unpack the first part of the Lord’s Prayer, asking questions like, what is the theology that undergirds our practice of prayer? What is the ordinary and gospel-shaped reality of prayer? And what are we actually saying when we pray, “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”?
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| 0:00.0 | When we're invoking God as father, in one sense we're calling to mind the whole Trinity. |
| 0:08.0 | And the reason is because we're talking about God who is the father, which automatically you're assuming now that he has his son, his only |
| 0:16.2 | begotten Jesus. |
| 0:17.9 | And we're referring to him as our father. |
| 0:20.7 | That is, we have been adopted into the family. We get to call upon God as Father. |
| 0:26.0 | Well, how did we get adopted? It was through the grace of the Spirit. |
| 0:30.0 | Jesus who is the Eternal Son of God by nature has made you and I the sons and daughters of God by grace. |
| 0:37.0 | Five centuries ago in taverns and public houses across Europe, the masses would gather for |
| 0:45.4 | discussion and debate over the latest ideas sweeping the land. |
| 0:49.9 | From one such meeting place, a small Cambridge inn called the White Horse |
| 0:54.1 | the reformation came to the English speaking world. |
| 0:57.3 | Carrying on the tradition welcome to the White Horse Inn. When I say the word prayer, what comes to mind? |
| 1:08.0 | We may think of many different things, a child's home of thanks before a meal, |
| 1:14.0 | passing thoughts about someone directed toward God, |
| 1:16.8 | expressing to God a deep feeling of lament |
| 1:20.1 | or moments of gratitude have all been identified as prayer. |
| 1:25.0 | Sometimes the meaning of the term prayer stretches further to include activities like a painting, |
| 1:31.0 | a musical piece, or a conversation with a friend about something spiritual, or simply |
| 1:36.8 | thinking about someone. |
| 1:38.8 | That second lists are extraordinary and not helpful nor precise. Of course those activities can be done in a prayerful way, |
| 1:47.0 | but it causes confusion to call a painting a prayer |
| 1:51.0 | or a conversation with someone a prayer. From a conversation with someone, a prayer. |
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