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Sunday Devotions: "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread"

Sunday Devotions: "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread"

The Lord's Prayer, Part Four

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Apr 02, 2023
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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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