The Lord’s Prayer: Learning from Jesus on What, Why, and How to Pray (Foundational Tools for Our Faith)
Overview
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 Prayer, Kevin DeYoung closely examines Christ’s model for prayer, giving readers a deeper understanding of its content and meaning, and how it works in the lives of God’s people. Walking through the Lord’s Prayer word by word, DeYoung helps believers gain the conviction to develop a stronger prayer life, and a sense of freedom to do so.
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- Examines Christ’s model for prayer
- Provides a deeper understanding of its content and meaning, and how it works in the lives of God’s people
- Helps believers gain the conviction to develop a stronger prayer life, and a sense of freedom to do so
- When You Pray
- Our Father
- Our Desire
- Our Daily Bread
- Our Debts
- Our Plea
- His Glory
- Study Guide
Top Highlights
“The first set of three requests focuses on God’s glory—his name, his kingdom, and his will. The second set of three requests focuses on our good—our provision, our forgiveness, and our protection.” (Page 27)
“We cannot bring about the kingdom by elections or education or humanitarian good works or environmental stewardship or by the cultivation of the arts. This is where we must not be confused. Yes, kingdom values should infiltrate our politics. Kingdom living should make a difference in our communities. But let us not misunderstand the nature of the kingdom. The kingdom does not advance when trees are planted, or unemployment lowered, or beautiful art is created, or elections go one way or another. Those may all be important things. They may reflect certain values of the kingdom. But the kingdom comes when and where the King is known. When Jesus is loved and worshiped and believed upon, there the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.” (Page 45)
“Doing what is right when you don’t feel like doing what is right is maturity. Professing one thing in public but living a different way in private is hypocrisy.” (Page 17)
“In the Christian life there aren’t many things more important than knowing how to pray” (Page 26)
“The kingdom of God is the heavenly world breaking into our earthly existence” (Page 41)
- Title: The Lord’s Prayer: Learning from Jesus on What, Why, and How to Pray
- Author: Kevin DeYoung
- Series: Foundational Tools for Our Faith
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 123
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Lord’s prayer; Prayer › Christianity; Jesus Christ › Teachings
- ISBNs: 9781433559716, 9781433559747, 9781433559723, 9781433559730, 1433559714, 1433559749, 1433559722, 1433559730
- Resource ID: LLS:LRDPRAYFTFOF
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:19:49Z
Kevin DeYoung is an American Christian Reformed Evangelical theologian and author. DeYoung is senior pastor at University Reformed Church (RCA) in East Lansing, Michigan and a member of and blogger for The Gospel Coalition. DeYoung is the author or coauthor of more than a dozen books including the 2009 and 2010 Christianity Today Book Award winners Why We’re Not Emergent, and Why We Love the Church. His most recent work, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem, is the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association 2014 Christian Book of the Year.