How's The Praying Going?
If you've ever built a house, you know exactly how complex the entire process is from start to finish - find the land to purchase, come up with the finances, the endless permits and forms and paperwork and phone calls and...and...and. It was much easier and simpler long ago, right? We find that, at times, in order to make our lives "simpler", we end up making it more complex. The same goes for prayer and our apparent need to make it complex, to the point of not wanting to pray at all. What's the point, right? Terry shows us today in Luke 1:38 the example of Mary and her exchange with Gabriel, God's messenger, a great reminder of how much simpler our prayer lives should be, and also how prayer is a whole lot more than us just talking to God.
Series Information
Terry proclaims the one Gospel through the history, research, rememberings and faith expressed in the text of the Gospel According to Luke. Jesus himself is the good news expressed by Luke. Beginning with the birth narratives unique to Luke's presentation, the good news of the Kingdom explodes into faithful view as each account, teaching, parable and event lived out and offered by Jesus, the Messiah-King, is examined the way Luke seemingly examined Jesus in his own work. Here we find a Jesus to love, a Jesus to follow, and ultimately a Jesus to worship.