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The Lord’s Prayer: Learning from Jesus on What, Why, and How to Pray is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christians know the importance of prayer, but the act of praying can be a real challenge. Some have the desire, but not always the will; others worry they don’t do it well. Books about prayer usually emphasize spiritual discipline, but that can foster more guilt than reassurance. So how can Christians improve their prayer life, embracing the privilege of communicating with God? In The Lord’s...

A well-known vegetarian who eats bacon every night, a loud opponent of the tobacco industry who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day, a champion of family values who sleeps with prostitutes—these are hypocrites. They pretend to be what they are not. And specifically, their pretense is for the applause and esteem of others. Too often, Christians think of hypocrites as people who do one thing but feel another. But that’s not hypocrisy. Hypocrites publicize one set of beliefs but live by a different set
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