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On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave talks with Adriel about what the Lord’s Prayer means, how and why it helps the average Christian, why and how some teachers distort the meaning of the Lord’s Prayer, along with his book, Praying With Jesus: Getting to The Heart of the Lord’s Prayer (New Growth Press, 2024).
What you’ll hear in this episode
- The grace of God and prayer.
- What Jesus means about thy Kingdom come over and against what Bethel and Bill Johnson teaches about it.
- Why the Lord’s Prayer is the most known prayer and misunderstood prayer in history.
- How our prayers can become spiritual spam.
- The dangers of deliverance ministry teaching and how it does damage to the Lord’s Prayer.
- Encouragement to the average Christian struggling with a faithful and consistent prayer life.
About Today’s Guest
Rev. Adriel Sanchez is senior pastor of North Park Presbyterian Church in San Diego and cohost of the Core Christianity radio program. He is also the author of Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord’s Prayer.
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Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!
Dave Jenkins is happily married to his wife, Sarah, and lives in beautiful Southern Oregon. He is a writer, editor, and speaker who loves Christ, His people, the Church, and sound theology.
Dave serves as the Executive Director of Servants of Grace Ministries and the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine. He is the Host and Producer of the Equipping You in Grace Podcast and a contributor to and producer of Contending for the Word.
He is the author of The War of Worldviews: Truth, Lies, and the Battle for the Christian Mind (Theology for Life, 2026), Contentment: The Journey of a Lifetime (Theology for Life, 2024), The Word Matters: Defending Biblical Authority Against the Spirit of the Age (G3 Press, 2022), and The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021).
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When he is not engaged in ministry work, Dave enjoys spending time with his wife, going to movies, sharing a meal at a favorite restaurant, or playing a round of golf with friends. He is also a voracious reader, particularly of Reformed theology and the Puritans, and is often found working through a stack of new books from a wide range of Christian publishers.
Dave earned his M.A.R. and M.Div. from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
