The Greatest Prayer Week Two - "Hallowed Be Thy Name"
I am continuing my sermon series on the Lord's Prayer this week---moving into the second line of the prayer: " Hallowed Be Thy Name ." As I pondered that line this week, I asked myself "What's in a name?" Naturally, I googled to find a good website that revealed the meanings of names. I picked www.behindthename.com because I liked the title. Why don't you click on it, and enter your own name just to see what it says. I'll wait. Were you surprised? Was it pretty much what you've always known? Most of us have a pretty good idea what our names mean. It's not something that we walk around shouting from the rooftops, nor do we plaster it on tee-shirts and wear them every where we go. We just sort of know what our names mean. I bet that you probably can't even remember when you first learned the meaning of your name. But you did. Someone told you, I bet. You may have read it somewhere, but almost certainly before you could re...