Jesus’s friends asked, “Lord, teach us to pray.” In this first message in our Lord’s Prayer series, we pause at the entrance: “Our Father in heaven.” Discover how Jesus answers both hypocritical and empty prayer, why His Sonship changes everything, and how we, through Him, can pray to a Father who is near.

Persecution looks different today than it did in first-century Asia Minor, but faithfulness to the gospel still costs something. In 1 Peter 5:6-10, Peter gives suffering Christians a key with three teeth: humility, sober-minded alertness, and firm faith. We learn to throw our anxieties on God, resist the roaring lion, and trust the Savior who disarmed the powers at the cross, knowing our suffering is only for a little while.