Praying the Lord's Prayer E-Book

J. I. Packer

• Herausgeber: Crossway
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2007

Beschreibung

Praying is a problem for many people. Christians often go through the motions of prayer because it is expected of them, but they are often left wondering, "Did God hear me? Does he even care?" In his book Praying the Lord's Prayer, an excerpt from Growing in Christ, J. I. Packer presents a powerful truth: prayer is a natural activity between the Heavenly Father and his children. As Packer works through each phrase of Christ's pattern of prayer, readers will begin to grasp the basic principles and guidelines of prayer. As readers apply the truths of this book to their prayer lives, they will experience intimate communication with God and will strengthen their own conversations with their Father in heaven.

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Praying the

Lord’s Prayer

Other Crossway books by J. I. Packer

Faithfulness and Holiness: The Witness of J. C. Ryle

God’s Plans for You

Growing in Christ

Life in the Spirit

A Passion for Faithfulness: Wisdom from the Book of Nehemiah

A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life

Praying the Lord’s Prayer

Copyright © 2007 by J. I. Packer

This book was formerly part of Growing in Christ, copyright © 1994 by J. I. Packer, originally published under the title I Want to Be a Christian.

Published by Crossway Booksa publishing ministry of Good News Publishers1300 Crescent StreetWheaton, Illinois 60187

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided for by USA copyright law.

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First printing, 2007

Printed in the United States of America

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible: English Standard Version.® Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations indicated as from JB are taken from The Jerusalem Bible, copyright © 1966, 1967, 1968 by Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations indicated as from NEb are taken from The New English Bible, copyright © 1961, 1970 by The Delegates of the Oxford University Press andThe Syndics of the Cambridge University Press. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations indicated as from Phillips are taken from The New Testament in Modern English, copyright © 1958, 1959, 1960, 1972 by J. B. Phillips. Used by permission.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Packer, J. I. (James Innell)

Praying the Lord’s prayer / J. I. Packer.

    p. cm.

“This book was formerly part of Growing in Christ by J. I. Packer, originally published under the title I want to be a Christian”— T. p. verso.

ISBN 13: 978-1-58134-963-4 (hc)

ISBN 10: 1-58134-963-7

1. Lord’s prayer—Devotional literature. I. Title.

BV230.P23 2007

2007008246

226.9'606—dc22

TO

JIM, TOM,

AND ELISABETH

who by what they

are even more than

by what they say

share the strength they

have been given

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