Prayer that Spans the World

Helmut Thielicke first came to prominence as a German Lutheran minister during the last days of the Second World War in Stuttgart. In the face of bombing raids and Nazi opposition, Thielicke carried on preaching to a congregation of thousands. After the war was over, he joined the faculty of the University of Tübingen as Rector and Professor of Systematic Theology, later becoming the Rector of the University of Hamburg. During this time, he also became a world traveller, lecturing and preaching in the United States, South Africa, Australia and Latin America. He died in Hamburg in 1986.

• To the ReaderI. Our Father, Who Art in Heaven: Part OneII. Our Father, Who Art in Heaven: Part TwoIII. Hallowed Be Thy NameIV. Thy Kingdom ComeV. Thy Will Be Done on Earth, As It Is in HeavenVI. Give Us This Day Our Daily BreadVII. Forgive Us Our Debts, As We Also Have Forgiven Our Debtors: Part OneVIII. Forgive Us Our Debts, As We Also Have Forgiven Our Debtors: Part TwoIX. Lead Us Not into TemptationX. Deliver Us from EvilXI. For Thine Is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory, Forever, Amen.

Here is a great preacher making the deepest truths plain with a passionate conviction. He carries the Lord's Prayer into the practicalities of out life today.