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Praying the Lord’s Prayer with Daniel

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Daniel at prayer

Wait a minute! Daniel was in the Old Testament and Jesus gave us the Lord’s Prayer in the New Testament? What does Daniel have to do with that?

In many churches, maybe most churches, the congregation recites every Sunday. Everyone has it memorized from the familiar King James translation. It is one of the few parts of today’s services where the language hasn’t been updated. It takes less than a minute. How many people actually pray it? Daniel did, as recorded in Daniel 9.

Praying the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew

Jesus gave the church a model prayer, not merely to be words to memorize.… Read the rest

Daniel’s vision of a blessed future

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The book of Daniel contains some of the most obscure visions in Scripture. Weird looking beasts represent empires in Daniel’s future, but mostly our past. We can identify many rulers by name and understand references to what each of them did. The evil doings of Syrian King Antiochus IV appear at greater length, except there always seem to some details that don’t fit. They point to a coming Antichrist. I have recently touched on one of the visions in Thoughts on Bible prophecy: reading the future in Scripture. Daniel’s final vision relates the ultimate destruction of Antichrist and promises bodily resurrection for everyone afterward.… Read the rest

Praise and Thanksgiving

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On this Thanksgiving day, the nation pauses to render thanks for the blessings we have received. We commemorate the thanksgiving banquet celebrated by the Pilgrims for a bountiful harvest following a rough winter. As our society becomes more secular and materialistic, it seems that our giving of thanks to God can easily become perfunctory.

Just before I started to write this post, I received A Word on Gratitude from a professional blogger. I do not know if he is Christian or not, but I found his words so refreshing I decided to share them with you.

My intention for this post is to focus attention not on thanksgiving itself, but praise.… Read the rest