11/20/2016
Ephesians 3:14-21
Richella Parham
The kingdom and the power and the glory,
The very things we all want for ourselves!
We want to be the hero of the story
And leave the others on their dusty shelves.
How subtly we seek to keep the kingdom,
How brutally we hold on to the power,
Our glory always means another’s thralldom,
But still we strut and fret our little hour.
What might it mean to let it go forever,
To die to all that desperate desire,
To give the glory wholly to another,
Throw all we hold into that holy fire?
A wrenching loss and then a sudden freedom
In given glories and a hidden kingdom.
–Malcolm Guite, Thine is the Kingdom
This Sunday’s Songs
Come Thou Almighty King by Unknown
Let Them Praise the Name of the Lord by Harris/Crawford
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty by Neander
10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) by Redman/Myrin
Good, Good Father by Brown, Barrett
Jude Doxology by Huxford
Our Heavenly Father by Montgomery/Benedict
Further Reading on the Lord’s Prayer
Prayer by Karl Barth
Lord’s Prayer by Leonardo Boff
The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann
Matthew (The Christbook) by F. Dale Bruner
Becoming the Answers to Our Prayers by Shane Claiborne & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Lord’s Prayer: A Missional Reading by Nijay Gupta (at Missio Alliance)
Our Father by Alexander Schmemann
The Lord’s Prayer: Confessing the New Covenant by J. Warren Smith
On the Lord’s Prayer by Tertullian, Cyprian, & Origen
Our Heavenly Father by Helmut Thielicke
The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard
Lord, Teach Us by Stanley Hauerwas & Will Willimon
Ain’t Too Proud to Beg by Telford Work
The Lord & His Prayer by N.T. Wright
