For years as a schoolboy, each morning my classmates and I all recited The Lord’s Prayer. In those school assemblies, I’m sure we all knew, or had a pretty good idea about, what the individual words meant, even weird ones like “trespasses”. But as a seven year old, praying the words straight after a hymn,…

Are intercessions the boring bit of the service detracting from the all-important live music and inspirational, bible-based sermon? In a modern understanding of our relationship with God, why do we need someone at the front of a church reading out their prepared prayers for people we don’t know? And, anyway, didn’t Jesus tell us not…