Sermon on the Mount | The Purpose of Prayer | Matthew 6:7-15 | Week 9

I want to say thank you to your pastor; we've been friends for eight months.  You have an excellent, top shelf, amazing, Bronco-rooting pastor in Pastor Ryan and his family.  I want to say thanks to Ryan and the whole staff for their hospitality and ministering to me as I come to minister the Word today.  I have been friends with Larry Boatright for 20 years.  We actually traveled for a year in a praise and worship band together.  

On the screen is my family.  This is my wife of fifteen years, Jennifer.  Together we have Hayley, Carter and Griffin.  We did pastor in Oklahoma for 12-13 years, but we are all die-hard Broncos fans, so when God said, "Go to Colorado," I said, "Yes, Lord, here am I, send me!"  My dad grew up in Sterling; my aunt lives south of the church here in Highlands Ranch, so it feels like extended family and it's an honor to be here with you this morning.  As I get to share on the Lord's Prayer in this series, The Sermon on the Mount: The Art of Human Flourishing, I want to specifically talk about the purposes of prayer...