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This study Bible focuses on Christian doctrines and how to apply them o life. These features--plus many more--make this Bible unique: 10,000 annotations; doctrinal summaries, histories and reference index; a "Life Helps" sections relating doctrine to everyday discipleship; and introductions and outlines to every book. Glossary of theological terms, charts, maps, words of Christ in red.

Tertullian’s On Prayer (204) is the oldest surviving postbiblical Christian treatise on prayer. Like Origen’s more lengthy On Prayer (ca. 233) and Cyprian’s On the Lord’s Prayer (252), Tertullian’s work is a commentary on the Lord’s Prayer. Christians prayed to God during persecution, and by the fourth century, apostles, the Virgin Mary, and martyrs began to be invoked as well as God. The solitaries and the monks sought a life of prayer. By the fourth century prayer was being offered for the