{"id":883,"date":"2010-02-19T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/?p=883"},"modified":"2010-02-16T23:08:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T22:08:27","slug":"lent-devotions-2010-friday-19-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/2010\/02\/19\/lent-devotions-2010-friday-19-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent Devotions 2010: Friday 19 February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<em><strong>Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name.\u201d  Lord&#8217;s Prayer, Introduction\/First Petition <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We all know the Lord&#8217;s Prayer by heart, but could we explain its meaning to a non-Christian?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Father who art in Heaven\u201d; God is our perfect Father and we can approach Him as His children knowing that He will hear and answer us.  \u201cHallowed be Thy name\u201d; This is a prayer among God\u2019s people that we keep His name holy.  How do we keep His name holy?  We as God\u2019s people keep His name holy by treating and teaching God\u2019s Word as absolute truth and by trying to live our lives according to this truth.  We need God\u2019s help to accomplish this both as individuals and as a church body.<\/p>\n<p>In a day and age when nobody wants to face the idea of absolute truth, we need to defend the name of God against those who desire to \u201cwater down\u201d the truth in order to be accepted by the masses.  As Christians, with God\u2019s help, we must stand in defence of God\u2019s holy name!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lord God, give us the courage to stand up for You, remembering all that You have done for us.  Amen. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name.\u201d Lord&#8217;s Prayer, Introduction\/First Petition We all know the Lord&#8217;s Prayer by heart, but could we explain its meaning to a non-Christian? \u201cOur Father who art in Heaven\u201d; God is our perfect Father and we can approach Him as His children knowing that He will hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent-devotions-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}