Hey everybody, I'm Tim Mackie, and this is my podcast, exploring my strange Bible. I am a card-carrying

Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you

have. On this podcast, I'm putting together the last 20 years worth of lectures and sermons where I've

been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites us into the mission

of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can all be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts and classes about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find all those resources at Bibleproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

All right, well, this is the third of a three-part series,

and it represents a number of teachings that I did back when I was a pastor at Dorof Hope Church,

and we did a short series on key spiritual practices,

habits of life that have marked followers of Jesus throughout many different church traditions,

Protestant, Orthodox, Catholic, throughout the history of the church.

We got together, here's what all Christians of all

different traditions have agreed on as the habits that foster and cultivate a healthy

devotion to Jesus. This episode is on praying and acting. And actually, it's a long exploration

of the meaning and significance of the classic Lord's Prayer.

And if you wait for it, at the end of the teaching, I actually play the Lord's Prayer, sung by a nun in Jerusalem singing the

Lord's Prayer in an ancient form of Aramaic, which is awesome. So that's at the end of the teaching. I play that.

But anyway, the Lord's Prayer, it'll change your life forever. If you learn both what it means

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