First Things - A Prayer Formed Life: Cross-Shaped Prayer

About this episode

This episode explores what a prayer-formed life looks like through the lens of Jesus' transfiguration and the tension between glory and suffering.

We’re letting the Gospel of Luke show us what a prayer-formed life looks like, watching Jesus pray in glory & in weakness, in public and in secret. This week, Ladaea Rylander will preach Cross-Shaped Prayer from Luke 9, where Jesus is transfigured in glory while already walking the road toward the cross. We will see that our adoption as beloved sons & daughters is secure, yet not soft. In that story, prayer becomes the way we stay with Jesus in the tension of glory and suffering, mountain & descent. Together we will explore what it means to bring our ordinary struggles & costly yeses into God’s presence, so that even the hard parts of our week become places where Jesus meets us, forms us, & shares His life with us. 📖 Bible App: http://bible.com/events/49568428 📺 Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBU0qzMRirg

Topics covered

• prayer
• Gospel of Luke
• Jesus
• transfiguration
• suffering
• glory

Keywords

• Cross-Shaped Prayer
• ordinary struggles
• God's presence

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Bible App

Books & works: the Gospel of Luke, Cross-Shaped Prayer, Luke 9

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