14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; 15 but if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Bread for Today
· Jesus petitioned God and taught his disciples to ask for daily bread, that is, enough bread to fulfill their needs for that day. This was an act of faith because he didn’t ask for a bread manufacturing company or truck filled with bread to last an entire year. Just enough bread for today.
· “Just in Case” Faith
· Therefore, I say to you, don’t worry about your life, what you’ll eat or what you’ll drink, or about your body, what you’ll wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t sow seed or harvest grain or gather crops into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than they are? Who among you by worrying can add a single moment to your life? Matthew 6:25-27 (CEB)
Bread for Tomorrow
Eschatological Bread: For the future beyond today’s needs.
· When we pray with an eschatological faith for daily bread, we are not only praying for bread today, but we are also praying for bread for the generations and centuries to come.
· “God, bless the unborn generations…”
Bread Forever
· The bread Jesus refers to in the text is more than physical bread. The hymn “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah” by Methodist minister and hymn writer William Williams beautifully glorifies Matthew 6:11.
o Guide me, O thou great Jehovah, Pilgrim through this barren land. I am weak, but thou art mighty; Hold me with thy powerful hand. Bread of Heaven, bread of Heaven, Feed me till I want no more.
Daily Bread
March 20, 2022 • Olu Brown • Matthew 6:9–15
2022 Advent Bible Study Series: Part III
December 15, 2022 • Paul Thibodeaux
We heard you loud and clear about having a Bible study experience here on campus. We decided there was no better time to do it than to celebrate The Coming Attraction of Christmas… Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Join us VIRTUAL & IN-PERSON here on campus for our church-wide Advent Bible study on Thursdays December 1st, 8th, 15th, and 22nd. That is what Advent is all about. Advent means “arrival” or “coming”. On the Christian calendar Advent is the beginning of the Christian year. It is a season of great expectation and a time not only to look back but to look forward.
When The Something In God Meets The Nothing In Us
December 11, 2022 • Paul Thibodeaux • Luke 1:26–38
God came down to Mary with a message and task ("something") that was humanly impossible and was "nothing" but the spirit of God the began a work in her. It is the same for us when we come in contact with the presence of God, ("something") like never before and there is "nothing" we can do except experience the "something" that God is working in us.