"Our Father, Who Art in Heaven . . ." After Jesus taught His disciples what we know as the Lord's Prayer, He continued His teaching: "Now when you fast . . ." Not if you fast--when! Our Lord knew the supernatural power and intimacy with the Father that emerges from a life infused with spiritual disciplines. Fasting with the Lord's Prayer is your guide to praying as Jesus taught and fasting for breakthrough answers from our heavenly Father. You will find practical, biblical guidelines to help you prepare for and experience a meaningful fast, and an in-depth exploration of the seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer. Plus, 21 daily readings will add richness to your time spent drawing closer to God. The Father is ready to meet your need. Are you ready to draw near and pray?

This Time-Tested Book Will Strengthen Your Faith, Drawing You Closer to God This comprehensive book is for you if you seek a closer walk with God, whether you wonder how to fast or you've been practicing this spiritual discipline for years. As you learn the clear biblical reasons for fasting, you'll also be introduced to nine biblical fasts that God can use for specific physical and spiritual outcomes. These include · The Disciple's Fast--to free yourself and others from addictions to sin · The Ezra Fast--to solve problems, inviting the Holy Spirit's aid · The Saint Paul Fast--to bring clearer perspective and insight in critical decision-making · The Daniel Fast--to gain a healthier life or healing Each fast includes its purpose and biblical basis, why or when to practice this fast, and a practical step-by-step guide as you prepare for it. Now included in the book are new stories from people who have found spiritual breakthroughs in fasting, study questions for individuals or groups, biblical references to fasting, a fasting glossary, and more.

Through learning God's names, we can discover what He wants for us, how He provides for us, and learn new, deeper ways to approach Him in prayer. With this collection of bestselling books, Elmer Towns introduces you to the numerous names of God in the Bible. Book one of this collection, My Father's Name, shows you what the Old Testament names of God mean and how knowing these names can bring you closer to your Heavenly Father. Book two, The Names of the Holy Spirit, explores the more than 80 names of the Holy Spirit in Scripture, and shares how each name reveals an essential truth about the Third Person of the Trinity. Book three, The Names of Jesus, reveals the many names of Jesus in the Bible and how these can help you know Him more fully--as your Lord, Friend, Provider, Intercessor, coming King, and much more.

This book is a definitive study of the exemplary prayer of the gospel. Nicholas Ayo's The Lord's Prayer presents a carefully detailed exposition of the Our Father as a text worthy of inspiring both mind and heart.

Since the beginning of Christianity, the Lord's Prayer has occupied an important place in the lives of Jesus's disciples, for it is the prayer Jesus himself taught them. Like other biblical prayers, the Lord's Prayer contains words people offer to God. But since this prayer is from Jesus and is part of Scripture, it is also God's Word to people. When we say this prayer, not only are we speaking to God, but God is also speaking to us. Highly regarded New Testament scholar William Wright shows how this classic text can speak afresh to the life of the church today. He integrates critical exegesis, theological exposition, and Christian spirituality to explicate the theological substance of the Lord's Prayer. His goal is to help readers come to know God and love God and others more deeply through a focused study of this important Christian prayer. The Touchstone Texts series addresses key Bible passages, making high-quality biblical scholarship accessible to the church. The series editor is Stephen B. Chapman, Duke Divinity School.

If someone asked you to teach them how to pray, how would you respond? Could you explain prayer in seventy-five words or less? Could you explain it so a child could understand? Could you create a short prayer that is a complete guide on how to pray? Would your prayer bring comfort over the centuries to countless millions? Would your prayer be more than just asking about your own needs? Would it explain the Heavenly Father? Is your prayer simple, yet does it still contain diamonds of truth that could be mined for a lifetime as it is studied and prayed? If you had one question to ask Jesus, would it be: “How do I pray?” This is what His disciples asked. They could have asked Jesus so many other questions, yet this was the important question. The author has studied “The Lord’s Prayer” in depth and then recorded how it changed his view of prayer. Read this book if you too would have asked Jesus how to pray.

Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe re-examines the alterations in Western European life that followed widespread conversion to Christianity-the phenomena traditionally termed "Christianization". It refocuses scholarly paradigms for Christianization around the development of mandatory rituals. One prominent ritual, Rogationtide supplies an ideal case study demonstrating a new paradigm of "Christianization without religion." Christianization in the Middle Ages was not a slow process through which a Christian system of religious beliefs and practices replaced an earlier pagan system. In the Middle Ages, religion did not exist in the sense of a fixed system of belief bounded off from other spheres of life. Rather, Christianization was primarily ritual performance. Being a Christian meant joining a local church community. After the fall of Rome, mandatory rituals such as Rogationtide arose to separate a Christian commonwealth from the pagans, heretics, and Jews outside it. A Latin West between the polis and the parish had its own institution-the Rogation procession-for organizing local communities. For medieval people, sectarian borders were often flexible and rituals served to demarcate these borders. Rogationtide is an ideal case study of this demarcation, because it was an emotionally powerful feast, which combined pageantry with doctrinal instruction, community formation, social ranking, devotional exercises, and bodily mortification. As a result, rival groups quarrelled over the holiday's meaning and procedure, sometimes violently, in order to reshape the local order and ban people and practices as non-Christian.