The Lord's Prayer

Nine Sermons

First published
1848
Length
35,000 words, about 3 hours' reading

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Maurice preached these sermons between February and April 1848, while a revolution in France brought down a monarchy and unrest spread across Europe. “I wished in these Sermons,” he wrote, “to connect the Lord’s Prayer with the thoughts which are most likely to be occupying us at this time.”

Taking the prayer clause by clause, from “Our Father” to the closing doxology, he asks what it means to pray for the coming of God’s kingdom and the doing of His will while earthly kingdoms are falling, and how the study of passing events might make worship more real.

Contents

  1. Advertisement
  2. Sermon I. Our Father Which Art in Heaven
  3. Sermon II. Hallowed Be Thy Name
  4. Sermon III. Thy Kingdom Come
  5. Sermon IV. Thy Will Be Done
  6. Sermon V. Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
  7. Sermon VI. Forgive Us Our Debts
  8. Sermon VII. Lead Us Not into Temptation
  9. Sermon VIII. Deliver Us from Evil
  10. Sermon IX. For Thine Is the Kingdom