Woodbury Church of Christ Sermons

We serve a God who cares about our "stuckness". No matter how we got ourselves in our situation or whose fault it is, our Father is concerned with getting us back on track. 

Sometimes we don't pray because we're afraid God won't answer. If God doesn't answer it brings up uncomfortable questions about God and faith. We don't quit praying, we just make vague, open-ended requests where, no matter the outcome, we can interpret it as a positive answer. What if we asked more of God? What would we discover about prayer and the character of God if we brought Him everything? 

2/17/19

God desires for us to bring what we are feeling, thinking, believing to him.

Jesus taught his followers about prayer by modeling prayer for them. The way Jesus taught prayer revolves largely around a shift in perspective. Our culture teaches to think about ourselves first and foremost. But the way Jesus taught us to pray focuses us first on God and then on others. Talking to God the way Jesus taught us to is about a reorientation in the way we see and interact with the world. 

2/3/19

As central as prayer is, in the entire bible there is arguably only one place where we get clear, specific, detailed instructions on how to pray. We call this section of Jesus’ teaching from the Sermon on the Mount - the Lord’s Prayer. Trying to piece together the different advice about prayer can create a little confusion about how prayer works. 

     Case in point, when Jesus sits down to teach his followers how to pray, he starts off with two recommendations about what NOT to do. How can we get through these questions to a place where we encounter God and His power in prayer?