Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy 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 ten 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 be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

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

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

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

Alright, well in this episode we are going to keep exploring the Gospel according to Matthew.

And specifically we're going to explore the meaning and significance of one of the most important

things that Jesus ever said to his followers, which is passing along to us his prayer.

How Jesus taught his disciples to pray is found in the sermon on the mountain, Gospel

according to Matthew chapter 6.

And I remember kind of discovering the Lord's Prayer, rediscovering it.

I remember first coming across it and hearing it even before I was the follower of Jesus.

But even after I became one of his followers in my early 20s, I still never actually adopted

the Lord's Prayer as my own prayer that I would pray regularly.

It took me years until I finally came across people who have really advocated adopting

the Lord's Prayer as a daily habit, as a way of actually focusing and guiding my own

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