Category: Religion/Spirituality

The model prayer

The Expositions in this volume were originally given as Sunday morning lectures. They are printed in deference to the wishes of members of my congregation, who, finding them helpful when first delivered, desire to possess them in more permanent form. They do not lay claim to a...

Chapters

1. Part 1

The Expositions in this volume were originally given as Sunday morning lectures. They are printed in deference to the wishes of members of my congregation, who, finding them hel...

2. Part 2

This name “Father” is a new name. It is a name _no one but Jesus could have revealed to men_. We could never have known God the Father save through the Incarnate Son. Men only s...

3. Part 3

This “Pearl of Prayer” divides itself naturally into two parts, and it is a fact worth noticing that the petitions in the first half of the prayer are all concerned with God’s h...

4. Part 4

But even in the story of that bitter loss I detect the note of “hope.” You perhaps remember the old Greek legend which says that when Pandora was married to Epimetheus the gods...

5. Part 5

The central idea of kingship is that of _rule_, _authority_, _power_. Kingship is only real and effective when the King commands and the people obey. In heaven God’s kingship is...

6. Part 6

Will you notice what a gracious light this petition throws upon the _condescension of God_? Our Lord is the high and Holy One, who inhabits eternity, and yet He stoops to lowly...

7. Part 7

Perhaps we are too apt to think of sin only in its effect upon ourselves. We think of the blight it brings upon human character and the ruin it makes in human lives. It is terri...

8. Part 8

What I have been saying up to this point illustrates the connection between this petition and the one we studied together last Sunday morning. “Forgive us our debts” is a prayer...

9. Part 9

It is not my intention, therefore, to make any comment upon that doxology with which, in our daily use, we end the prayer, but rather to call your attention to some thoughts on...

10. Part 10

=A History of the United States.= By JOHN FISKE, Litt.D., LL. D. For Schools. With Topical Analysis, Suggestive Questions and Directions for Teachers, by FRANK ALPINE HILL, Litt...

11. Part 11

“The young housewife and mother will find this book invaluable. Miss Honnor Morten’s large experience both as a nurse and as a health lecturer under the London County Council en...

12. Part 12

“‘Louis Wain’s Animal Show’ will cause endless amusement in the nursery, and the difficulty will be to get the fortunate little ones who receive the volume to put it down. There...