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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...

The Lord’s Prayer was given to those who have been born into God’s family through faith in Jesus Christ. I’m not suggesting that God never responds mercifully to the cries of those outside his family, because his common grace extends to all creation and all humanity (Matt. 5:43–45; Rom. 2:4). Jesus originally preached the Sermon on the Mount as an ordination sermon for his disciples, but a great crowd of outsiders was also present (Matt. 5:1–2; see Luke 11:1–4). The Lord’s Prayer is not only a family
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