Some of Tim's Sermons

I’m really glad this morning to be talking about this prayer. Over my life I’ve had a bit of a strange relationship with it. I remember an assembly I sat in when I was ten. The headmaster was defending the fact that we didn’t have much in the way of prayers in our school assemblies. He asked those of us who knew the Lord’s prayer to put up our hands. I have to say that I didn’t know it off by heart then, but there were a few who did. The Head went on to argue that this was the reason we didn’t pray it in school assemblies. Looking back, I wonder if he was even aware of the irony that he was arguing that a school shouldn’t do something because it would involve children having to learn something.

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