1. This is an excerpt from chapter 9 of “What Can Really Know?: The Strengths and Limits of Human Understanding” by David Andersen (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  2. The Lord’s Prayer is liturgy and catechism, action and instruction, praxis and theology.
  3. Prayer is not just about asking for things. It's about receiving what has already been given to us in Christ.
  4. Praying the Word of God back to God carries didactic import. It teaches us.
  5. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  6. The Lord’s prayer is a prayer in perfect accord with the will of God, and Jesus gifts it to us to plagiarize at will.
  7. This is the Christian word: grace. Such grace is found only with this Lamb who is also our Shepherd.
  8. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  9. How can we be sure that we are getting a “solid spiritual diet” and not a “milky” one?
  10. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  11. A father's struggle to pray for his child's healing is one of the most difficult experiences he can face.