The Lord's Prayer: A 30-Day Journey Learning to Pray with Jesus

On this particular day, after Jesus finished praying, one of his disciples approached him with a request that would change everything: "Lord, teach us to pray" (Luke 11:1).

It's a remarkable request when you think about it. These were Jewish men. They'd been praying since childhood. They knew the traditional prayers—the Shema, the Kaddish, the Amidah. Prayer wasn't foreign to them.

But they'd seen something different in Jesus. They'd watched him pray with an intimacy, an authority, an expecta...