The Christian Faith

This section of the website provides more extended teaching on larger content areas, such as the Creed and the Sacraments. It begins with Introduction·to the Christian Faith.  More content will be added in due course.

The section entitled Short Talks comprises stand-alone talks and articles on different aspects of the Christian Faith, including the teaching of Jesus, the seasons of the Church’s Year and Feasts and Festivals.· 

 

Confession in prayer

The vision of God

Very few people have ever seen God during their life on earth.  Isaiah the prophet was one of them, and the sight of God had the same effect on him that it has always had on all those who have seen him.

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Asking in prayer (A)

As you know, prayer is the lifting of our minds to God, with or without words, in order to get to know him, to love him and to do his will.  It therefore includes adoration, thanksgiving and confession of sin, as well as asking.  Today we are going to think about prayer in the sense of asking for this or that.

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Asking in prayer (B)

Wrong prayers

Last week we were thinking about prayer in the sense of asking, and we saw that prayer means asking for what God wants us to have.  It is completely useless to ask him for things which would do us no good if we had them.  Suppose, just before dinnertime, a small girl – or boy – asks her mother if she can have some sweets.  Well, no sensible mother would let her have them because they would spoil her appetite so that she would not eat her dinner.  The girl would like the sweets, but they wouldn’t do her any good.  So one of the reasons why people don’t get what they ask God for is that they ask for the wrong things and God says ‘No’.  The Collect for the 10th Sunday after Trinity reminds us of the importance of asking for what God wants us to have:

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