Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.

I'm Scott Ray, Dean of faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics at Talbot School of Theology,

Biola University.

And I'm your co-host, Sean McDowell, Professor of Apology Edicts at Taubis School of Theology

Biola University. We're here with our guest today, Dr Craig Hazen, who is the director of the Christian

Apologetics program at Biola University and has been for some time.

It's a wonderful growing program that the university has had going for some time.

But he's written a book that's not really apologetics related.

It shows that he actually knows something about something other than apologetics, which we're encouraged about.

But we're here featuring his book Fearless Prayer,

Why We Don't Ask and why we should.

So Craig, thanks for so much for coming on with us

and telling us a little bit more about the book

and we get to unpack some of the ideas here.

Yeah, hey, thanks for having me

and I love your palatial studio. You like this.

Yeah, well listen, you know every book's got a story behind it. So what's the story behind this one? What motivated you to write this because this is a little bit different

than some of the stuff you've traditionally done? Yeah, that's a good question.

One of my colleagues I told them I got a contract to write a book on prayer and he just paused.

Like, the message was clear like, wait, you are writing a book on prayer?

I guess I don't ooze the hyper-spirituality or something.

But I just got bugged by a passage in the Gospel of John that I'd read many times before. I'm reading

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