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Curated Sermon Illustrations on the Lord's Prayer

Explore powerful illustrations on the Lord's prayer. Discover stories, analogies, humor and more as you illustrate the timeless truths from scripture.

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A Change of Priority

The Lord’s Prayer is designed to help us make this change: a change of priority, not a change of content. This prayer doesn’t pretend that pain and hunger aren’t real. Some religions say that; Jesus didn’t. This prayer doesn’t use the greatness and majesty of God to belittle the human plight. Some religions do that; Jesus didn’t. This prayer starts by addressing God intimately and lovingly, as “Father”—and by bowing before his greatness and majesty. If you can hold those two together, You’re already on the way to understanding what Christianity is all about…“The danger with the prayer for bread is we get there too soon.