The Lord's Prayer: The Prayer and Teaching of Jesus

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AuthorHouse, 2005 M01 24 - 152 pages

The Lords Prayer the prayer Jesus taught to his disciples is so familiar that we say it by rote but its few verses sum up everything Jesus taught, and for which he lived and died.

Brown reviews each verse, in the context of the Gospels, so the reader can learn what Jesus prayer tells us about:

-- our relation to God

-- praying and what to pray for

-- the coming of the kingdom

-- our daily bread our physical and spiritual sustenance

-- forgiveness

-- temptation

--deliverance from evil

Meredith Brown applies his scholars mind and his faithful heart to this very useful appreciation of the central prayer of the Christian life.Whether read in solitary or in a study group, this is a book to deepen and enliven faith.

Hays Rockwell, ninth bishop of the Episcopal Church inMissouri(retired)

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Page 26 - You have heard that it was said, "You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy." But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you...
Page 46 - Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Page 31 - Abba! Father!' "it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God...
Page 72 - Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal; for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Page 46 - Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
Page 9 - If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Page 61 - But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth.
Page 36 - You have heard that it was said to the men of old, 'You shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment.
Page 76 - I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die.
Page 93 - Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house, you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

About the author (2005)

Meredith M. Brown, a lawyer and writer, for many years co-chaired the corporate department and the mergers and acquisitions group at the international law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. He has written articles on religion, ethics and professional responsibility, and American history, as well as hymns, carols and anthems. He has also written many books and articles on mergers and acquisitions, securities law and corporate law, and has been a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School.

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