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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...

the exhortation in the Didache tells us that the Lord’s Prayer was important from the earliest days of the church. Christians have always understood that this was not just another prayer. It is the prayer that teaches us how to pray every other prayer. Obviously we don’t have to include these exact words or rigidly follow this structure in every prayer, yet every Christian prayer ought to be informed and shaped by the Lord’s Prayer. This is our model, and it teaches us what to pray for and, just
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