Discipling Students in Prayer Through the Lord’s Prayer
As children of God, we receive a relationship that cannot be lost or altered. God gives us this identity and secures it on our behalf.
It is easy to locate and point the spotlight on someone else’s sin while secretly hoping that the rays of the spotlight will not make it far enough to illuminate our own.
As children of God, we receive a relationship that cannot be lost or altered. God gives us this identity and secures it on our behalf.
These good and holy rules all point to worship, the worship of a holy God who created us in his image and wants us to live as his followers with love and purity.
If we fail to express the good news of the gospel to our teenagers, we will be guilty of the same moralism we see in many of the religious teachers of Jesus’ day.
As those who belong to him, he calls us and our teenagers to shine the light of his gospel in the darkness of the world.
Whereas our students feel dissatisfied with the fleeting promises of life “under the sun,” Jesus has revealed to us in the Beatitudes the wisdom of God that is far “above the sun,“ in which we can know true blessedness.