You’re permitted to call on “Our Father, who art in heaven” at all hours of the day and night with whatever you like.
Here is the true story, the one worth remembering: You are a gift.
The following entries are excerpts from Chad Bird’s upcoming book, Untamed Prayers: 365 Daily Devotions on Christ in the Book of the Psalms (1517 Publishing, 2025), pgs. 32, 52.

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These studies can expose some very disturbing truths about Christianity in America.
There is a mirror that we Christians look into with daily repentance.
One thing that makes John different than the other three Gospels is the absence of the Lord’s Supper.
When the Holy Spirit is at work in the office of the holy ministry, the man is ridden by the Spirit and so his only concern is for preaching the Gospel, baptizing, absolving, and feeding sinners in the Name of Christ Jesus.
The truth is, this church’s eyes wander very easily. You are there to make sure Jesus is clearly and constantly placarded before those eyes.
The Christian Church is one of the last refuges in modern American society where people who have perpetrated or suffered trauma and violence can gather together to receive the truth about themselves.
A confessing church is a church more worried about souls than appearances, family lines, or institutional bottom-lines.
Let’s take a look point-by-point to better understand why apologetics is really just part of sharing the Gospel.
If it's not Christ Jesus "for you" they're not delivering the Gospel to you.
If we are saved by faith, if it is by faith that we have life in His name, what do the sacraments have to do with it? The answer is: everything.
I believe it’s no small charge to assert that there’s a massive problem in the majority of America’s pulpits.
You have suffered your son to come unto Jesus; but fathers, don’t let him die!