{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"High Desert Church Young Adults Sermons","title":"In Heaven","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2420,"description":"What if the way we think about God is actually the most important thing about us? That is the provocative idea at the heart of this exploration of the Lord's Prayer, specifically the phrase 'our Father in heaven.' We tend to drift toward one of two extremes: either we treat God as a distant, untouchable force with no personal interest in us, or we reduce him to something manageable and familiar, a kind of on-demand companion we carry around for comfort. Scripture refuses to let us settle into either of those extremes. Drawing from Solomon's prayer in 1 Kings 8, the Apostle Paul's address in Acts 17, and the breathtaking throne room vision of Isaiah 6, we are invited into a tension that is actually the heartbeat of authentic prayer. God is simultaneously the transcendent source of all existence, uncontained by heaven or earth, sovereign over all of human history, and yet so near to us that in him we live and move and have our being. That tension is not a contradiction to resolve but a reality to inhabit. When we hold both truths together, prayer stops being a transaction and becomes a genuine encounter with the living God.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/p_wgQ7rs_XCuBJ0W9OTr7nHfIPE48tn7_KS6174xsmA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81ZDA5/MjU1ZWNkODIxM2Nk/N2RjYjBjOWY2NzNk/ZThhMS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}