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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...

false gods of the nations by declaring the absolute rule of his will over creation. In Isaiah, God said that he alone declared “the end from the beginning” and proclaimed, “My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose” (46:10). In sum, as the psalmist exclaimed, “Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases” (Ps. 115:3). Second, Scripture uses the phrase “will of God” to refer to God’s commandments. Theologians also refer to this use of the “will of God” as God’s revealed
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