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On Earth as It Is in Heaven: How the Lord’s Prayer Teaches Us to Pray More Effectively is unavailable, but you can change that!

Do you feel like your prayer life is stagnant? Like you’re saying the same things to God that you did when you first started praying? Just as young children slowly learn to communicate in more and more complex ways, so Christians should move from simply crying out to God to a mature, developed prayer life. The basic elements found in the Lord’s Prayer are a helpful guide to believers hoping to...

church, on the other hand, has been given no guarantee of material wealth but has been given “every spiritual blessing in Christ” (Eph. 1:3). Israel is identified with the earth, but the church is identified with heaven. Our Father is in heaven, and therefore our eternal home is in heaven (John 14:1–6). We are pilgrims and strangers on earth because we are citizens of heaven where our Savior is enthroned, and one day he will come to take us home (Phil. 3:20–21). As citizens, our names are permanently
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