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Luke 11:1-13
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Reading the Text:
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Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
| The
Five Gospels Parallels, John W. Marshall, University of Toronto. |
| "Divine
Father and Mother," Comparative World Scriptures from United
Communities of Spirit. |
| The Qaddish.
At (Rutgers University Dept of Religion) Mahlon H. Smith's Into His Own: Perspective on the
World of Jesus companion to the historical study of Christian texts. |
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"Ask, Seek, Knock,"
"Forgiveness for Forgiveness," The Jesus Database, an online annotated inventory of
the traditions concerning the life and teachings of Jesus. Dr. Gregory C.
Jenks, FaithFutures Foundation. |
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III.XIV.3, Adversus
Haereses,
Irenaeus of Lyons.
(c. 180) |
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Chapters I - IX,
Chapter X,
On Prayer,
Tertullian
(c. 199) |
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VII.13,
VIII.1, Stromata,
Clement of Alexandria (c 200) |
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Exegetical
Fragments, (Scroll down to CHAP. 11. 7.)
Hippolytus (c
210). |
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IV.26, Against
Marcion,
Tertullian
(c. 210) |
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Chapter II, On
Modesty,
Tertullian
(c. 217) |
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Epistle VII
--
Cyprian of Carthage (c.
250) |
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On the
Lord's Prayer --
Cyprian of Carthage (c. 252) |
| Commentary
on the Petitions in the Lord's Prayer, from Martin Luther's Large Catechism. |
| "The
Lord's Prayer," from Luther's "Small Catechism." |
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Commentary on a Harmony of the
Evangelists, John Calvin, 1558:
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| From the Geneva Notes.
 | "We must pray with faith." |
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| From
Matthew
Henry's Commentary (c. 1700).
| "Lord, teach me what it is to pray;
Lord, stir up and quicken me to the duty; Lord, direct me what to pray
for; teach me what I should say." |
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| From
Wesley's
Notes.
John Wesley
(1703-1791).
| "The Jewish masters used to give their
followers some short form of prayer, as a peculiar badge of their relation
to them. This it is probable John the Baptist had done. And in this sense
it seems to be that the disciples now asked Jesus, to teach them to pray." |
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| From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871). |
| From The
People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
| "Luke says instead of good things
(Matthew) that the Father will give the Holy Spirit,
the best possible gift." |
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Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
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Comments
(commentary) and
Clippings
(technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican
Diocese of Montreal. |
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"First
Thoughts on Year C Gospel Passages in the Lectionary," Pentecost 9,
William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia.
| "God is like the mum or dad who really
cares (and confronts us with reality), who is holy and makes you feel
holy. So prayer is an activity of intimacy and awe and thus a model for
all relationships; it is the language of the kingdom. It brings the gift
of the Spirit." |
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Blogging toward Sunday,
Theolog:
The Blog of The Christian Century. Current lectionary comments are by
William H. Willimon. |
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"Exegetical Considerations,"
Pentecost 8, Richard
Carlson, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Using Greek for
Sunday Text Preparations. |
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Exegetical Notes
by Brian Stoffregen at CrossMarks Christian Resources.
| "First of all, we need to admit that
prayer is not "putting coins in a vending machine." It is not putting our
prayer in the right slot, pushing the right button, and waiting for the
vending machine God to spit out exactly what we want. God is not a vending
machine." |
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Dylan's Lectionary Blog,
Proper 12C. Biblical Scholar
Sarah Dylan Breuer looks at readings for the coming Sunday in the lectionary
of the Episcopal Church.
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"As Jesus teaches us to pray, with our lives as well as our lips, we
are invited to see the world as Jesus sees -- the world's wounds as
opportunity for healing and reconciliation, the world's needs as
opportunity to experience God's generosity afresh by participating
in its expression toward the poor, a account of deserving as a
measure of just how much God's love exceeds such reckoning." |
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Laterally Luke, by
Brian McGowan, Anglican priest in Western Australia. |
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Wellspring of
the Gospel, Ordinary 17, Catherine McElhinney and Kathryn
Turner, Weekly Wellsprings.
| "How
does thinking about Jesus in His prayer - its joys and its pains help you
with your prayer?" |
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Exegesis,
Proper 12C, by
Richard Donovan at lectionary.org.
| "Daily bread, in this prayer,
represents all that is essential for life. God is the source of life and
everything that sustains life." |
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"Jesus' Teaching on Prayer,"
Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible
Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources.
| "How does this passage answer the
problem of unanswered prayer?" |
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"Teach Us
To Pray," Expository Essay,
Luke 11:1-13, Dr. William R. Long.
Part 2.
Part 3.
| "Prayer is the means Jesus used
to open himself to God, to anchor himself to his Father and to work
the earth of his heart." |
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"Our Father: the Prayer of Relationship,"
Fr. Gerry Pierse, C.Ss.R., from Sundays Into
Silence: Reflections on the Sunday Gospels in the Light of Christian
Meditation. Claretian Publications.
| "St. Teresa of Avila said that
meditation on the Our Father alone could bring us into the deepest prayer
and union with God. One could spend a lifetime reflecting on it and then
savoring its richness in silence." |
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"You
Who Are Evil," Garret Keizer, The Christian Century, 2001.
| "Just as we are capable of giving
a child bread when she asks for bread, or lending our neighbor the
same when he knocks in the middle of the night, so are we not more
prone to forgiveness than we sometimes think?" |
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"The Prayer of Impertinence," poetry based on Luke 11:7, by Kilian
McDonnell, National Catholic Reporter, 2002. |
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"'The Lord's
Prayer' Flash Movie," Scott Kinney. |
| "Midnight
Perseverance," analysis and reflection by Mike Hoy in Sabbatheology by The
Crossings Community of St Louis, Missouri.
| "Because we think of prayer as our payment to God, we are unwilling to
receive anything from God. The pray-er him or herself is really standing it alone, without
a sense or value of the relationship with God in the praying." |
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| The Our
Father/Lord's Prayer in 31 languages plus 290 other languages/dialects. |
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"Pray
This Way: A Study of the Lord's Prayer," by Mark G. Vitalis
Hoffmann. Includes links to study and worship materials on the Lord's
Prayer. |
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The Lord's Prayer sung in Syrian-Aramaic - YouTube. |
| The Lords
Prayer by Jack Kilmon. Extended treatment of Aramaic/language and textual issues. |
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Articles & Background:
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"Lord's
Prayer," "The
Friend at Night," wikipedia. |
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"Matthew 6:9-13//Luke 11:2-4: An Eschatological Prayer?" Jeffrey B.
Gibson, Biblical Theology Bulletin, 2001.
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"This article argues that in the
eyes of Matthew and Luke the so-called Lord's Prayer reflects a perception
of Jesus that his disciples are in grave danger of becoming members of
"this generation," that is, those among Jesus' co-religionists who reject
what Jesus shows is God's will for Israel. Its focus and concern is that
the disciples invoke God's protection against engaging in this apostasy." |
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| "Without
Contemplation the People Perish," Walter J. Burghardt at The
Living Pulpit.
| "Prayer is a loving look at
the real." |
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| "From
Enthymeme to Theology in Luke 11:1-13," Vernon K. Robbins. In Literary
Studies in Luke-Acts: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Joseph B. Tyson. R. P.
Thompson and T. E. Phillips, eds. Macon, GA: Mercer Univ. Press, 1998.
| "Through rhetorical elaboration,
enthymemic reasoning configures social, cultural, and ideological topics into topics that
inhabit the sacred texture of the text. These topics interweave theology and Christology
in a manner that creates not only a new social, cultural, and ideological world, but also
a new theological and christological world for the reader." |
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| "Meals, Food and
Tablefellowship." Jerome H. Neyrey, in The Social Sciences and New Testament
Interpretation, 159-82. R. L. Rohrbaugh, ed. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1996.
| "How
can readers understand the particular ceremony of meals and table fellowship? Why are
meals so important as symbols of broader social relationships? How can we peer below the
surface and grasp the social dynamics encoded in meals and commensality, what
anthropologists call "the language of meals"?" |
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"Exploring
a Life of Prayer," Jane E. Vennard, Iliff School of Theology. At
Religion OnLine.
| "If we try to figure out who God is before we pray, we may never pray.
Similarly, if we wait to pray until we have the right words, until we build our
self-esteem, until we overcome our fear of vulnerability, we may never
pray." |
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"Learning
to Pray," an interview with Roberta C. Biondi. By John C. Purdy at Religion OnLine.
| "Another thing about friends is that they speak their minds to
each other. When friends don't tell each other what they have on their minds, it destroys
the friendship. This is another grounds for intercessory prayer. It doesn't matter that
God already knows everything." |
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"On
Providence and Prayer," Jack A. Keller. At Religion OnLine.
| "...the reality of innocent suffering has made sensitive people suspicious of
this formulation of the doctrine of providence and the corresponding view of
prayer." |
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Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
subscribed and logged in to
ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| van Bruggen, Jacob, "The Lord's Prayer and Textual
Criticism," Calvin Theological Journal, 1982.
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| Bandstra, Andrew J.,
"The Original Form of the Lord's Prayer," Calvin Theological Journal,
1981.
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| Binau, Brad A., "'Holding On' and
'Letting Go': the Dynamics of Forgiveness," Word & World, 2007.
(See Word & World 27.1
Forgiveness)
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| Brown, Ramond E., S.S.,
"The Pater Noster as an Eschatological Prayer," Theological Studies,
1961.
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| Burghardt, Walter J., SJ, "Without Contemplation, the
People Perish," The Living Pulpit, 1993.
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| Byargeon, Rick W.,
"Echoes of Wisdom in the Lord's Prayer," Journal of the Evangelical
Theological Society, 1998.
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| Curkpatrick, Stephen,
"Parable Metonymy and Luke's Kerygmatic Framing," Journal for the
Study of the New Testament, 2003.
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| Harrisville, Roy A., "God's Mercy -- Tested,
Promised, Done! An Exposition of Genesis 18:20-32; Luke 11:1-13;
Colossians 2:6-15," Interpretation, 1977.
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| Jacobson, Karl N., "A Word in Season: Preaching the
Lord's Prayer," Word & World, 2002.
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| Johnson, Alan F., "Assurance for Man: The Fallacy of
Translating ANADIDEIA by 'Persistence' in Luke 11:5-8," Journal of
the Evangelical Theological Society, 1979.
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| Keizer, Garrett, "You Who Are Evil," The Christian
Century, 2001.
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| Keller, Jack A., "On Providence and Prayer," The
Christian Century, 1987.
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| Leaney, Robert, "The Lucan Text of the Lord's
Prayer," Novum Testamentum, 1956.
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| North, J. Lionel,
"Praying for a Good Spirit: Text, Context and Meaning of Luke 11.13,"
Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2005.
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| Roth, S. John,
"Jesus the Pray-er," Currents in Theology and Mission, 2006.
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| Snodgrass, Klyne, "ANAIDEIA and the Friend at
Midnight (Luke 11:8)," Journal of Biblical Literature, 1997.
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| Stortz, Martha E., "The Practice of
Forgiveness: Disciples as Forgiven Forgivers," Word & World,
2007. (See Word & World 27.1
Forgiveness)
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| Waetjen, Herman C.,
"The Subversion of 'World' by the Parable of the Friend at Midnight,"
Journal of Biblical Literature, 2001.
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| Wright, N.T.,
"Thy Kingdom Come: Living the Lord's Prayer," The Christian Century,
1997.
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Reviews: |
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Sermons:
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"How To Pray,"
Pentecost +9, 29 July 2007, Luke Bouman,
Goettinger Predigten: Every Sunday
Sermons based on the RCL by a team of Lutheran theologians/ pastors. |
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"Salvation
in a Heartbeat," the Rev. Patti Davis, Day 1, 2006. |
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"I Wonder
Why My Prayers Go Unanswered," the Rev. Charles Reeb, Day 1,
2005. |
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"To
Whom Do We Pray?" the Rev. Dr. John Claypool, Day 1, 2004. |
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"Pushy in Prayer," Pastor Edward F.
Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle,
Washington. |
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"Contemplation
in the Midst of Chaos," Sr. Joan Chittister, 30 Good Minutes,
Chicago Sunday Evening Club, 2002.
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| "The
On-Going Conversation," the Rev. Robert M. Holmes,
Day 1, 2001. |
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"How to Pray
through the Ceiling," John Jewell,
1998. |
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"Collecting Debts," L. Gregory Bloomquist, Saint Paul University,
Ottawa. |
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"A Shameless
Path," the Rev. Dr. Jana Childers, Associate Professor of Homiletics and
Speech-Communication at San Francisco Theological Seminary. 30 Good
Minutes, Chicago Sunday Evening Club, 1998. |
| Father
Andrew M. Greeley, "Priest, Author, Sociologist,"
Commentary and Homily
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With Children:
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"The Lord's
Prayer," Illustrating the
Story (lessons, children's sermons), coloring pages, activity sheets,
crafts, children's songs. MSSS Crafts. |
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"AMEN,"
Talks to Children, Rev. Donald
McCorkindale, Dalgety Parish Church, Fife, Scotland. |
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"Persistent
Jackie,"
children's story by Larry Broding, word-sunday.com. |
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"My
Prayers Are Not Working," Rev. Dr. Edgar Mayer, Lutheran Church of
Australia. |
| "Lord, Teach Us How to Pray," Sunday School
Lessons: Family Bible Study, art projects, music, stories, etc. |
| "Just Do It!" children's sermon, coloring page. Charles Kirkpatrick,
Sermons 4 Kids. |
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"Forgive,"
Jim Kerlin, childrensermons.com. |
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Luke 11:1,
memory verse activity, MSSS Crafts and Resources for Bible
Stories. |
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Drama:
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"Our Daily Bread,"
from
A Certain Jesus by
Jose Ignacio and Maria Lopez Vigil. Ideal for catechetical and liturgical
dramatization of today's gospel. Claretian Publications. |
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"My
Prayers Are Not Working," Edgar Mayer, dramatix. |
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"The Lord's
Prayer," Andy Lund, dramatix. |
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"Prayer Clinic,"
Andy Lund, dramatix. |
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"The Prayer
Restaurant," Cliff Hunse, dramatix. |
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"I Need to Hear
From You," Peter France, dramatix. |
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"I Know,"
Ryne Mimbs, dramatix. |
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"The Lord's
Prayer,"
Matthew Pole, Christian Drama and Mime. |
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"Jesus the Man of Prayer," Michael English,
Milton Parish Church Drama Resources. |
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Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
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Clip Art, Luke 11:9,
Luke 11:13, Fr. Richard Lonsdale, Resources for Catholic Educators. |
| Clip Art Images:
Luke 11:1-13,
Luke 11:1-13 #2, Misioneros Del Sagrado Corazón en el Perú. |
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Luke 11:1-4,
Luke 11:1-4, Liturgical Drawing,
Maria d.c. Zamora,
Claretian Resources, Philippines. ("Download and use
these for free.") |
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Luke 11:1-13 at
Cerezo Barredo's weekly gospel illustration.
Liberation emphasis. |
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Have a
Snake,
Reverend Fun Cartoon, gospelcom.net. Check for printing permissions at
right-hand side of destination page. |
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Hymns and Music:
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Contemporary/Praise Song suggestions, Together to Celebrate,
David MacGregor. |
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"The Power of Prayer," Brenton Prigge, NewHymn, a new, relevant hymn set
to traditional tunes. |
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Hymns with Scripture
Allusions: Luke 11:1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 13. The Cyber Hymnal. |
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Hymnal
Scripture References, The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship. |
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Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's
Art Index: |
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Movies scenes with the following themes,
listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance: |
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Study Links and Resources for the Book of Luke |
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