Sermon Recommendation: God the Father
We had a guest speaker yesterday morning, a young man named Gregg Matte. Gregg is a nationwide retreat and conference speaker, the author of "The Highest Education: Becoming a Godly Man," and is the Director and Founder of Breakaway Ministries at Texas A&M University (my alma mater, by the way).
His message was entitled "The Fatherhood of God," primarily based on Luke 11:9-13, and it was quite good. I was especially touched by his picture of what our prayer life should be.
He describes his 18-month-old son's babblings as the most incoherent -- and beautiful, to his ears -- sounds in the world. Then he asks us to explain why, when we pray, we feel like we need to be so "grown-up" (my words, not his). God rejoices in the simple sound of our voices; He doesn't need to hear the words to know the thoughts, feelings, needs, fears, desires. He just wants to hear our voices.
I'm not doing justice to Gregg's word pictures, but you can listen for yourself. We've put the sermon on our church's website, in MP3 format, so feel free to download and listen. It'll be there for a few more weeks.
It's a nice picture, although I'd like to think that my heavenly Father is a bit more perceptive than that, and doesn't need someone else to tell Him that it's me on the line. ;-)
Posted by: Eric at August 12, 2003 05:44 PMAbout the publisher
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Cory Ten Boom (spelling?) had a famous message about our prayers/babblings. She likened it to some scribblings that a child put on paper. When the Father picked up the paper, he began saying "What is this mess?" but when he was told it was his son's, it became a precious keepsake. That's why we pray "in Christ's name".
Posted by: Cori at August 12, 2003 05:28 PM