When You Pray, Pt. 2 (Matt 6:5-15)

By: Curtis Baker

CurtisBakerNow that Jesus has addressed the potential temptations that a life of prayer may present, he then goes on to teach us how to pray.  There are two places in the gospel accounts where Jesus does this.  In Luke 11 his own disciples approach him after seeing Jesus in prayer and ask him to teach them to pray.  That prayer is a slightly shorter version of the same prayer that Jesus teaches here in the Sermon on the Mount, so it is a reasonable assumption that this was the form Jesus commonly used when teaching on the subject of prayer.  The prayer is very short, and can be quoted easily, but what I would like for us to see is that this prayer is more than simply a form to recite.  He is teaching us what the content of our prayers should consist of.

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City of Slaton SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

by Mike Lamberson, City Manager

Due to the overabundance of tree limbs from the storm we will open the recycle center from Tuesday the 11th thru Friday the 14th from noon till 7 p.m. and regular hours on Saturday.

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