It’s week three of four in Teach Us to Pray, our mini-series on the Lord’s Prayer. Here’s how you can prepare:
1. Read through our text, Matthew 6:9–13.
Last week, we focused on the first four words of the Lord’s Prayer, “Our Father in heaven.” This week, we turn to the first three petitions of the prayer—the “Your” petitions: Hallowed be Your name, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done…
2. Read, pray, and sing through the service:
CALL TO WORSHIP: Isaiah 6:3, Matthew 6:9–13
Holy, Holy, Holy (Reginald Heber, John Bacchus Dykes)
Forever Reign (Jason Ingram, Reuben Morgan)
CONFESSION OF SIN:
Father, while you call us to treasure Your name, we often treasure other names more than Yours. You teach us to pray, “Your kingdom come,” but we seek our own little kingdoms more than Your glorious kingdom. You call us to pray, “Your will be done,” and yet we obsess with getting our way every time. Forgive us for our selfishness and near-sighted tendencies. Help us love Your name, Your kingdom, and Your will more than our own.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Romans 8:14–17
King Of My Heart (John Mark McMillan, Sarah McMillan)
The Lord’s Prayer (James Lepine)
GREETING, SERMON, & RESPONSE
Here As In Heaven (Brown, Brock, Ntlele, Furtick, Joye)
COMMUNION
New (Bryan Brown, Tofer Brown, Kate York)
All Glory Be To Christ (Dustin Kensrue arr. King’s Kaleidoscope)
BENEDICTION
It’s week two of four in Teach Us to Pray, our mini-series on the Lord’s Prayer. Here’s how you can prepare for our first week:
1. Read through our text, Matthew 6:9–13.
Last week was an overview on the whole prayer and some of the “why” behind Jesus’ charge to us: “pray then like this…” This week, we’ll focus on the phrase “Our Father in Heaven” before spending next week on the three “Your” statements (“hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven”) and the following, final week on the three “Us” statements (“give us today our daily bread, and forgive us our debts…, and lead us not into temptation”).
2. Read, pray, and sing through the service:
CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 68:4–6
Before The Throne Of God (Charitie Lees Bancroft, arr. The Modern Post)
How Deep The Father’s Love For Us (Stuart Townend, Charlie Hall arr. Chichi Agorom, The Christian Year)
CONFESSION OF SIN: Matthew 6:25–27
ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Galatians 4:4–5
No Longer Slaves (Joel Case, Jonathan David Hesler, Brian Johnson)
GREETING, SERMON, & COMMUNION
RESPONSE: Song & Prayer
This Is My Father’s World (Maltbie Davenport Babcock, arr. Gungor)
Good Good Father (Anthony Brown, Pat Barrett)
BENEDICTION
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Our artwork for Teach Us to Pray was done by Bruce Butler of Art /Rhetor. In addition to being a graphic designer and artist, Bruce co-leads a Gospel Community and often plays electric guitar at Park Church (and all around Denver).
Piece
The image includes three rhetorical elements:
First and most prominently, the six wings represent the six appeals in the Lord’s prayer—three “Your” appeals (“hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven”) and three “us” appeals (“give us today our daily bread, and forgive us our debts…, and lead us not into temptation”). Additionally, the four living creatures from Revelation 4 in the throne room of God are described as having six wings and always being in the presence of God, speaking the holiness of His name! As a result of our union with Christ, our prayer is always before our Father in heaven, to whom we are instructed to pray “hallowed be Your name.”
Second, the mountains in the center of the image suggest the loftiness this simple prayer and also remind us of the Sermon of the Mount, from whence we get the Lord’s Prayer.
Lastly, and most subtly, the upside-down triangle speaks to the subversive kingdom of Jesus, wherein the first are last, the greatest is as the slave of all, and the people seek first the kingdom of God, simply asking for their daily bread in return.
In between the season of Advent and our upcoming series in Exodus (starting Sunday, January 27), we’ll spend four weeks with the Lord’s Prayer in Teach Us to Pray. Here’s how you can prepare for our first week:
1. Read through our text, Matthew 6:9–13.
In Luke 11, the disciples ask Jesus, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” Jesus responds with the prayer we now know as “The Lord’s Prayer.” This week, we’ll survey the entirety of the prayer. Next week we’ll focus on “Our Father in Heaven,” followed by the three “Your” statements the next week and the three “Us” statements the final week.
2. Read, pray, and sing through the service:
CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 145:8–13
Go Tell It On The Mountain (John W. Work, arr. David Crowder Band)
God With Us (Jason Ingram, Leslie Jordan)
CONFESSION OF SIN: From Every Season Prayers by Scotty Smith:
Great and gracious Father,
we declare that Your love for us is beyond measure
and Your goodness to us is beyond question.
Jesus’ empty tomb fuels our humility and intensifies our joy today.
We turn once again to You for the manna of grace,
the renewing of our hearts, and the regaining of perspective.
Forgive us for not loving You as you deserve to be loved;
for not trusting You as your faithfulness commends;
and for not obeying You as the Gospel commands.
Forgive us for living lives marked more by busyness than kindness.
Forgive us for fueling resentment rather than forgiving offenses.
Forgive us for pampering ourselves into mediocrity while ignoring the poor.
We offer our confession, trusting in Jesus’ finished work
and Your promise of grace. Amen.
Great Is Thy Faithfulness (Thomas Obediah Chisholm, William Marion Runyan)
Seas of Crimson (Johnson, Bashta, Taylor, Strand arr. Daniel Bashta)
ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Psalm 103:8–13
GREETING, SERMON, & COMMUNION
RESPONSE: Song & Prayer
Your Love Is Strong (Jon Foreman)
All Glory Be To Christ (Dustin Kensrue, arr. by Kings Kaleidoscope)
BENEDICTION
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