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Ultimately, the Lord's Prayer reveals more about how to live than how to pray.

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus provided the greatest Christian teaching of the centuries on spiritual growth. This brief prayer with its simple words still speaks to those desiring genuine intimacy with God. Living the Lord's Prayer points to Jesus' teaching on community, love for the broken and isolated, holiness in an age of profanity, dealing with the evil within, resisting temptations, and more. Join David Timms as he examines each familiar phrase, uncovering a profound framework for a meaningful Christian life.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #325594 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780764205064
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From Publishers Weekly
Jesus Christ used just 72 words to outline the key elements of communicating with God in what we know as the Lord's Prayer. Timms, a native Australian who teaches at Hope International University in California, uses many more words than that in this lucid and probing excavation of the prayer, which he calls the greatest Christian teaching of the centuries on spiritual formation. In word-by-word and phrase-by-phrase exposition, he digs deep into meanings and layers that easily escape a quick read. The opening our calls us to community, Timms says, while Father speaks to fear. Timms also discusses God's closeness, our call to holiness, our willfulness, the challenge of simplicity and the need for forgiveness. Readers will find remarkable lessons throughout this work, which reveals shining gemstones of truth usually left buried in the prayer. Even Amen is mined, with Timms calling it the greatest word of faith that the early church could muster. This is a well-polished study of the oft-quoted but seldom-realized formative prayer of the Christian faith. (July)
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Review
"This book lays the foundation for leading a meaningful Christian life." -- ChristianWomenOnline.net

"This is a well-polished study of the oft-quoted but seldom-realized formative prayer of the Christian faith." -- Publishers Weekly, May 2008

About the Author
David Timms teaches and chairs the Graduate Ministry Department at Hope International University in Fullerton, California. David has been a church planter, pastor, and trainer of pastors for twenty-five years. His e-zine, In Hope, shares his reflections on Christian leadership and spiritual formation. He and his wife, Kim, have three sons and live in Fullerton, California.

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Customer Reviews

A Future Classic
Along the lines of authors such as Dallas Willard, Henri Nouwen and Jerry Bridges, David Timms has written an inspirational, soon-to-be classic, on the most important Prayer in Scripture. Breaking down the phrases that Jesus used in to explain prayer, Timms suggests the truest and deepest sense of the prayer and the spiritual formation that comes with its correct use.

Living The Lord's Prayer review.
I have taken four weeks to read this book, and can honestly say that this is the best book that I have ever read on the subject of The Lord's Prayer-I read copiously! Dave Timms makes the prayer practical and livable, and brings super application to bear on the life of a Christian as we consider how God really wants us to live for Him. Five stars!

Ian T Blacker.

This One Will Change Your Life
The Lord's Prayer was always somewhat of a riddle for me. After years of walking with Christ, I just didn't understand the implications of these few verses, but I always felt like there was more than meets the eye.

Timms has helped me unravel some of the implications of this prayer, but has succeeded in creating even more holy mystery on the whole. I guess it's just like God to do that in our hearts. The concept that the prayer is meant to be lived, not just spoken, has literally undone me.

Thanks David - for sharing your life's wisdom with us in this wonderful written testimony to God's faithfulness!