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Lakes Free Prophecy Conference: Videos from the conference are now  available for purchase. Click here to purchase.

Summer Camp Scholarships: We are offering scholarships for our kids, Kdgn-12th grade, to attend Camp Shamineau and other Bible Camps this summer. One per child/per year. Contact the church office for details and to get a sponsorship code. Camp Shamineau is now accepting registrations and offers a discount if paid in full by April 1.

New Women’s Bible Study: “When You Pray,” 7 sessions, meets Wednesdays, 9:30-11:00/11:30am, March 27-May 8. Cost: $25. Sign up here.

Sharing Shop Donations: We are now accepting gently used spring/summer clothing for our upcoming clothing event in April. Donations can be dropped off by the Sharing Shop door in the Fellowship Hall.

Easter Flowers: Help us celebrate Easter by ordering flowers in memory or honor of someone special in your life. On Easter Sunday there will be a special bulletin insert listing the names of those being honored or remembered. You may take your flower home after the 11:00 service. Order here.

Children’s Church & Nursery Workers Needed for Easter: Nursery workers needed for 8:00 service on Easter. Children’s Church helpers needed to facilitate a video and coloring sheet for children 2yrs – PreK at 8:00, 9:30, and 11:00am. Please contact Lisa Lizotte (612) 597-6230.

Red Cross Blood Drive: Monday, April 22, 10am-4pm. Sign up to donate here.

Forgive Us Our Debts
Matthew 6:12; 14-15
Pastor Jason Carlson


Matthew 6:9-13

In praying “forgive us our debts” Jesus reminds us of:

  1. Our desperate need

Romans 3:10, 18, 23

“Had we contracted by one debt of this kind, would not the thought of it have been enough to fill our mind with indescribable horror?  But we are chargeable with debts- debts of every description: original, imputed, inherent; and actual, debts of omission and commission, of ignorance, infirmity, and deliberate wickedness, without limits and without number.” – Herman Witsius, Sacred Dissertations On The Lord’s Prayer

“The sum and substance of the gospel is that a holy and righteous God who must claim a full penalty for our sin both demands that penalty and provides it.  His self-substitution is Jesus Christ the Son, whose perfect obedience and perfectly accomplished atonement on the cross purchased all that is necessary for our salvation.  Jesus Christ met the full demands of the righteousness and justice of God against our sin.” – Albert Mohler Jr., The Prayer That Turns The World Upside Down

2 Corinthians 5:21
Romans 3:23-24
John 3:16

  1. Our dearest longing

Romans 8:1

“The Lord’s prayer is the family prayer, in which God’s adopted children address their Father, and though their daily failures do not overthrow their justification, things will not be right between them and their Father till they have said, ‘Sorry’ and asked him to overlook the ways they have let him down.” – J.I. Packer, Praying The Lord’s Prayer

John 13:6-10
1 John 1:8-9

  1. Our divine responsibility

Matthew 6:12, 14-15

Forgiven people will be forgiving people.

Matthew 5:7
James 2:13
Luke 6:37
Matthew 18:21-22
Matthew 18:32-35

Forgiven people will be forgiving people.


Sermon Discussion Questions

Questions for reflection:

  1. Have you considered your debts against God? Have you experienced his forgiveness?
  2. How might God be calling you to practice forgiveness in your life?

Questions for discussion:

  1. In what ways is this 5th petition of the Lord’s Prayer a gospel prayer?
  2. Why must Christians continue to pray this petition even after being saved?
  3. What is the relationship between God’s forgiveness of us and our forgiveness of others?

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