THE LORD’S PRAYER
BREAD AND SIN
17 NOVEMBER 2009
(St Stephen’s Church Hall, Inverness)

REFERENCES

(References to bibles used are usually to the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), The New Jerusalem BIble (NJB), the Revised English Bible (REB), the New International Version NIV), the English Standard Version (ESV) or the King James Version (KJV)).

Introduction

Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom (1985) p.92
Matthew 7:11

Why petition? Why work?

2 Thessalonians 3:6-8.
James 2:15-6.

Every Day with William Barclay (1973) p.171

Bread

Genesis 14:18
Genesis 25:34
Exodus 16:4
Psalm 104:15
John 6: 32-3, 35

Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, (2004) p.141 and p.47

John 6;33, Luke 11:15

Daily

Matthew 6:25
1 Peter 5:6

William Barclay, Gospel of Matthew, (2001) vol 1 p.295, p.300, p.250

William Tyndale, New Testament (circa 1525/34)

Debts and debtors

Barclay, Gospel of Matthew, pp.253-5

John Calvin, Forme des prieres et chants ecclesiastiques (1542 and 1552)

Book of Common Prayer (1549 and 1662)

Every Day With William Barclay p.79

Scottish Episcopal Church, 1982 Liturgy

Book of Common Order (3rd ed., 2005)    

Robert Burns, Holy Willie’s Prayer

Deuteronomy 28:15-9

Forgiveness

Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness (1999).

Sin

Barclay, The Gospel of Matthew, vol 1, pp.253-6
Barclay, The Letters of John and Jude (2002) p.37

John Cassian, Institutes, (ca 360-ca 435; 2000 ed trans by B Ramsay).

Christopher Jamison, Finding Happiness (2008)

Rowan Williams, Silence and Honey Cakes, (2003) p.112.

John 12:26

Temptation

Dietrich Bonhoeffer,  Creation and Fall: Temptation (various translations; latest 1997)

Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12; Luke 4:1-12

Genesis 2:16-17

Bob Ekblad, Reading the Bible With The Damned (2005) p.30

Doxology

1 Chronicles 29:11-3

Conclusion

Robert Burns, A Prayer in the Prospect of Death