About halfway through our series on the Lord’s Prayer, we come to a deceptively simple petition.
In a gospel that records Jesus insisting that people don’t “live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Matt 4:4) and saying “this is my body” as he breaks bread before his crucifixion (26:26), asking for “daily bread” may carry …
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