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The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down: The Lord's Prayer as a Manifesto for Revolution is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Our Father, who art in heaven….” The opening words of the Lord’s Prayer have become so familiar that we often speak them without a thought, sometimes without any awareness that we are speaking at all. But to the disciples who first heard these words from Jesus, the prayer was a thunderbolt, a radical new way to pray that changed them and the course of history. Far from a safe series of...

deserves. What a remarkably God-centered prayer. How then does God “hallow his name” in the world? First, “hallowed be your name” is a request that the church be sanctified. The church is the steward of God’s name. One of the most important ecclesial responsibilities is to bear the name of God faithfully. Every single Christian who comes to know the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior and is adopted as a son or daughter of God bears this responsibility. This is a remarkable task—a task for which we are not
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