When You Pray, Say

I am usually not one to recommend TV or radio pastors, but Alistair Begg falls into a different category for me. Because of predilection away from broadcast ministries, i only tangentially paid attention to Pastor Begg. That changed when I was turned on a particular series on the Lord’s Prayer — When You Pray, Say. Now, his weekend broadcast series (Truth For Life Weekend) is replaying the series. It is a remarkable series of nine messages explaining just a few lines of scripture (Luke 11:3-5).

Martin Luther referred to the Lord’s Prayer as “the greatest martyr on earth,” because it was used, he said, so frequently without thought or feeling and without revere

nce or faith. In our Christian lives, nothing is more important, and nothing more difficult to establish and maintain, than a meaningful prayer life.

Although we can find time to do just about everything else; good things, industrious things, ministry things, it seems that when we get to the issue of prayer, everything w


When we look at the Lord’s Prayer, we realize that there is much instruction contained in it. We shouldn’t think of it as something that is simply liturgical. Rather, we ought to consider it a realistic help to us in establishing our own prayer lives. As Christians we must be committed to seeing prayer become a central part of our daily walk with Christ. Prayer shouldn’t be supplemental – it should be fundamental.
orks against us.

In this series Alistair Begg explores what it means to use the Lord’s Prayer purposefully, seeking to understand then apply the principles it teaches.

Truth for Life Weekend broadcasts on Sundays in the Philadelphia area on these stations (particularly WBYN-FM 107.5 and WCHR-AM 920).

All of the messages from this series (When You Pray, Say), as well as all his daily podcast are available to download from truthforlife.org.